Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Foreword by George Hunsinger Part 1: Karl Barth1. Karl Barth as Theological Conversation Partner: Personal Experiences between East and West, and the Challenges of Barth's Theology (2013)2. Karl Barth: Humanity and Religion (1981)3. God and Humans as Partners: On the Significance of a Central Category in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics (1986)4. Barth's Christology as Exemplary Exegesis (1996)5. "The Sum of the Gospel": Karl Barth's Doctrine of Election in the Church Dogmatics (2010)6. "Man as Soul of His Body": Notes on the Anthropological Foundations of Pastoral Care in Karl Barth's Theology (2003)7. Theology and Resistance in Karl Barth's Thinking: A Systematic-Theological Account (2005)8. The Church as "Provisional Representation" of the Whole World Reconciled in Christ: The Foundations of Karl Barth's Ecclesiology (2006)Part 2: Dietrich Bonhoeffer9. The Meaning of God's Mystery for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of the Religions and "Religionlessness" (1984)10. "Sharing in God's Suffering": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of a "Religionless Christianity" (1989)11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of God (2006)12. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Exegesis of the Psalms (2012)13. "God's Hand and Guidance": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Language for God in a Time of Resistance (2003)14. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of His Resistance: The Risk of Freedom and Guilt (2009)15. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of the State: Theological Grounds, Practical Consequences, and Interpretation in East and West (2013)16. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Nonreligious Interpretation of Biblical Concepts" and the Current Missionary Challenge of the Church (2007)Appendix: "I Refuse to Let Anyone Else Share What Belongs to You Alone": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters to Maria von Wedemeyer from the Time of Their Engagement (2011)Indexes