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Book SynopsisBonhoeffer was convinced that God spoke to his people through the Bible. How did a theologian of his caliber, who was well acquainted with the historical-critical interpretation of the scriptures, justify such a claim, and how did he apply this conviction to his daily challenges as theologian, pastor and political dissident during the Nazi regime? This book presents the attempts by a group of international Bonhoeffer scholars to answer some of these questions. By approaching Bonhoeffer’s theology from a number of different hermeneutical angles, the contributions in this volume cast new light both on his more general hermeneutical framework and on specific theological and political issues concerning his reading of the Bible. The essays underline Bonhoeffer’s contemporary relevance for the current resurgence of theological interpretation and for postmodern discussions about the interpretive nature of truth.
Table of ContentsContents: Johannes Woyke: Contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics and Bonhoeffer’s «Theological Exposition» of Scripture. A comparative Overview – Stephen Plant: God’s Dangerous Gift: Bonhoeffer, Luther and Bach on the Role of Reason in Reading Scripture – Robert Steiner/Helen Hacksley: Enticing Otherness in Barcelona - Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Retelling of the Gospel like «a fairy tale about a strange land» – Jens Zimmermann: Finitum Capax Infiniti or The Presencing of Christ: A Response to Stephen Plant and Robert Steiner – Edward van ’t Slot: The Freedom of Scripture - Bonhoeffer’s Changing View of Biblical Canonicity – Karina Juhl Kande: Biblical Metaphors in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Understanding of The Church – Marie Theres Igrec: Bonhoeffer´s «theological interpretation» of the Biblical Narrative of the «Creation and Fall» of Man – Florian Schmitz: «Only the believers obey, and only the obedient believe.» Notes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Biblical Hermeneutics with Reference to
Discipleship – Paul R. Hinlicky:
Verbum Externum - Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Bethel Confession – Nicola J. Wilkes: Confession of Sin as the Mirror Image of the Fall – Anne Reichold: Bonhoeffer’s Worldly Hermeneutics: Language and Life as Spheres of «in-between».
