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Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context Peter Hooton

Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context By Peter Hooton

Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context by Peter Hooton


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In this book, Peter Hooton explores Bonhoeffers response to the challenge of a future religionless age in Western civilization and its place in his theology.

Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context Summary

Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context by Peter Hooton

The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western civilization to be approaching a completely religionless age to which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores Bonhoeffers own response to this challengehis concept of a religionless Christianityand its place in his broader theology. It does this, first, by situating the concept in a present-day Western socio-historical context. It then considers Bonhoeffers understanding and critique of religion, before examining the religionless Christianity of his final months in the light of his earlier Christ-centred theology. The place of mystery, paradox, and wholeness in Bonhoeffers thinking is also given careful attention, and non-religious interpretation is taken seriously as an ongoing task. The book aspires to present religionless Christianity as a lucid and persuasive contemporary theology; and does this always in the presence of the question which inspired Bonhoeffers theological journey from its academic beginnings to its very deliberately lived endthe question Who is Jesus Christ?

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Peter Hootons excellent book constitutes a significant contribution to the growing corpus of Bonhoeffer scholarship. It forensically probes the central notion of religionless Christianity forensic in the sense of leaving no stone unturned but also in its search for answers, especially to the big questions, What is left once Christianity is unburdened by religion? What is left for the believer? What is left for the world come of age? Finding answers to these Bonhoeffer-implied questions seems more urgent today than ever. Peter Hootons work takes us just a little closer. -- Terence Lovat, The University of Newcastle, emeritus
Bonhoeffer's plea for a 'religionless Christianity' continues to intrigue and puzzle generations of new readers. Peter Hooton argues eloquently and with academic rigor that Bonhoeffer's prison theology can only be truly understood as an aspect of his abiding and central conviction of Jesus Christ as the truth of both God and humanity. -- Rev. Dr. Keith Clements

About Peter Hooton

Peter Hooton works for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on Charles Sturt Universitys Canberra campus.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 We are approaching a completely religionless age

Chapter 2 Bonhoeffers Critique of Religion

Chapter 3 Religionless Christianity in its Christological Context

Chapter 4 Non-religious Interpretation

Chapter 5 Mystery, Faith, and Wholeness

Chapter 6 Christ without religion

Additional information

NGR9781978709355
9781978709355
1978709358
Bonhoeffers Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context by Peter Hooton
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2022-05-15
222
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