Ethics

Author

• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Additional Author(s)

• Krauss, Reinhard
• West, Charles C.

Publisher

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9781506402727

Series

Subject(s)

• CHRISTIAN ETHICS
• PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
• RELIGION AND ETHICS

Notes

. . Index: p. 321-352

Abstract

Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century. Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford Green and supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett.

Written in the midst of the conspiracy to overthrow the Hitler regime, it is nonetheless chiefly concerned with ethics for the postwar time of reconstruction and peace. Though caught up in the vortex of momentous forces in the Nazi period, Bonhoeffer systematically envisioned a radically Christocentric, incarnational ethic for a postwar world, purposefully recasting Christians' relation to history, politics, and public life. Focused on Christ, the God who became human, and the vision of a world reconciled with God, Ethics shuns abstraction, seeks the will of God in concrete historical reality, and calls the church to be a transforming community in the world with a new responsibility to public life.

This edition allows all readers to appreciate the cogency and relevance of Bonhoeffer's vision.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xviii, 352 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

The love of God and the decay of the world --
The world of conflicts --
Shame --
Shame and conscience --
The world of recovered unity --
The Pharisee --
Proving --
Doing --
Love --
The church and the world --
The total and exclusive claim of Christ --
Christ and good people --
Ethics as formation --
The theoretical ethicist and reality --
Ecce Homo! --
The despiser of men --
The successful man --
The idolization of death --
Conformation --
The concrete place --
Inheritance and decay --
Guilt, Justification and renewal --
The confession of guilt --
Justification and the healing of the wound --
The last things and the things before the last --
Justification as the last word --
The penultimate --
The preparing of the way --
The natural --
Natural life --
Suum cuique --
The right to bodily life --
Suicide --
Reproduction and nascent life --
The freedom of bodily life --
The natural rights of the life of the mind. Christ, reality and good (Christ, the church and the world) --
The concept of reality --
Thinking in terms of two spheres --
The four mandates --
History and good --
Good and life --
The structure of responsible life --
Deputyship --
Correspondence with reality --
The world of things --
Pertinence --
Statecraft --
The acceptance of guilt --
Conscience --
Freedom --
The place of responsibility --
Vocation --
The 'ethical' and the 'Christian' as a theme --
The warrant for ethical discourse --
The commandment of God --
The concrete commandment and the divine mandates --
The concept of the mandate --
The commandment of God in the church. The doctrine of the primus usus legis according to the Lutheran sybolia writings --
The concept and its usefulness --
The theological justification for the doctrine --
Interest in the concept --
Definition --
Contents --
Its purpose --
Means of execution --
The proclaimer --
The healer --
The primus usus and the gospel --
Some deductions and questions --
Critique of the doctrine of usus in the Lutheran symbolic writings --
'Personal' and 'real' ethos --
Personal or real ethos --
The New Testament --
The symbolic writings --
Some criticisms of Dilschneider's thesis --
Systematic consideration concerning the assertions which Christian ethics may make with regard to secular institutions --
State and church --
The concepts involved --
The basis of government --
In the nature of man --
In sin --
In Christ --
The divine character of government --
In its being --
In its task --
In its claim --
Government and the divine institutions in the world --
Government and church --
Government's claim on the church --
The church's claim on government --
The ecclesiastical responsibility of government --
The political responsibility of the church --
Conclusions --
The church and the form of the state --
On the possibility of the word of the church to the world --
What is meant by 'telling the truth?' --
Indexes --
Names --
Subjects --
Biblical references --
References to the Lutheran Symbolic Writings.

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