Bonhoeffer's Seminary Vision

Author: Paul R. House
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433545470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is best known for his role in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and his subsequent execution at the hands of the Nazis. However, readers are less familiar with his tireless work educating seminary students for a life of pastoral ministry. Anchored in a variety of influential lectures, personal letters, and major works such as The Cost of Discipleship, this book attempts to recover a largely unexamined part of Bonhoeffer’s life—exploring his philosophy and practice of theological education in his original context. It then builds on this foundation to address the drift toward increasingly impersonal educational models in our own day, affirming the value of personal, face-to-face seminary education for the health of pastors and churches.

Bonhoeffer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Joel Lawrence
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567148602
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
Joel Lawrence offers a new methodology and a fresh perspective in this book, making it a concise guide to one of the most remarkable martyrs and theologians of the 20th century.

Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker

Author: Andrew Root
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 144122131X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
The youth ministry focus of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life is often forgotten or overlooked, even though he did much work with young people and wrote a number of papers, sermons, and addresses about or for the youth of the church. However, youth ministry expert Andrew Root explains that this focus is central to Bonhoeffer's story and thought. Root presents Bonhoeffer as the forefather and model of the growing theological turn in youth ministry. By linking contemporary youth workers with this epic theologian, the author shows the depth of youth ministry work and underscores its importance in the church. He also shows how Bonhoeffer's life and thought impact present-day youth ministry practice.

Theological Education at Finkenwalde

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 0800698398
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1266

Book Description
In the spring of 1935 Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed in August 1937. This volume includes bible studies, sermons, and lectures on homiletics, pastoral care, and catechesis, giving a moving and up-close portrait of the Confessing Church in these crucial years—the same period during which Bonhoeffer wrote his classics, Discipleship and Life Together.

Reading from the Underside of Selfhood

Author: Lisa E. Dahill
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630878251
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's example of self-sacrificing discipleship has for over fifty years inspired Christians around the world in both their resistance to evil and their devotion to Jesus Christ. Yet for some readers--particularly those who suffer trauma, abuse, and other forms of violence--Bonhoeffer's insistence on self-sacrifice, on becoming a "person for others," may prove more harmful than liberating. For those already socialized into self-abnegation, uncritical applications of Bonhoeffer's teachings may reinforce submission, rather than resistance, to evil. This study explores Bonhoeffer's understandings of selfhood and spiritual formation, both in his own experience and writings and in light of the role of gender in psycho-spiritual development. The central constructive chapter creates a mediated conversation between Bonhoeffer and these feminist psychologists on the spiritual formation of survivors of trauma and abuse, including not only dimensions of his thinking to be critiqued from this perspective but also important resources he contributes toward a truly liberating Christian spirituality for those on the underside of selfhood. The book concludes with suggestions regarding the broader relevance of this study and implications for ministry. The insights for spiritual formation developed here provide powerful proof of Bonhoeffer's continuing and concretely contextualized relevance for readers across the full spectrum of human selfhood.

Understanding Bonhoeffer

Author: Peter Frick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781481309004
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
If Bonhoeffer is enigmatic, it is equally true, as Frick reveals, that he remains endlessly relevant.--Michael Pasquarello, author of Dietrich: Bonhoeffer and the Theology of a Preaching Life

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Author: Ernst Feil
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN: 9780800662400
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This study examines the development and interrelatedness of Bonhoeffer's hermeneutic, Christology, and understanding of the world.

Becoming Simple and Wise

Author: Joshua A Kaiser
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227905180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
How does a Christian discern the will of God? While this question lies at the heart of Christian moral life, religious communities struggle to articulate responses that balance simple faith and rational reflection. Some characterise discernment as simpleobedience to the commandments in Scripture; others portray it as an exercise of human reason and conscience. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian, pastor, and political conspirator who embodied a life of discernment amidst difficult circumstances in WWII Germany, offers a compelling theological account of how to seek and respond to God's will. By tracing Bonhoeffer's understanding of moral discernment throughout his writings, and especially in his Ethics, Joshua A. Kaiser demonstrates the importance of discernment for Bonhoeffer's vision of Christian ethics and explores how his view combines elements of simple faith and rational reflection. While the results of the study will be significant for those interested in Bonhoeffer, they will also be relevant to all who struggle along the path of Christian discipleship.

Melodies of a New Monasticism

Author: Craig Gardiner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162032993X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
The New Monastic Movement is a vibrant source of renewal for the church’s life and mission. Many involved in this movement have quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s conviction that the church must recover ancient spiritual disciplines if it is to effectively engage “the powers that be.” Melodies of a New Monasticism adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music) to articulate the way that these early Christian virtues can be woven together in community. Creatively using this imagery, this book draws on the theological vision of Bonhoeffer and the contemporary witness of George MacLeod and the Iona Community to explore the interplay between discipleship, doctrine, and ethics. A recurring theme is the idea of Christ as the cantus firmus (the fixed song) around which people perform the diverse harmonies of God in church and world, including worship, ecumenism, healing, peace, justice, and ecology.

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Author: Keith L. Johnson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830827161
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
The 2012 Wheaton Theology Conference was convened around the formidable legacy of Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi resistant Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This collection, focusing on the man's views of Christ, the church and culture, contributes to a recent awakening of interest in Bonhoeffer among evangelicals.