Blogs Posts on "Dietrich Bonhoeffer"

The Poetry of Care and Loss by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 29, 2009Doing the rounds this week: Ellen Davis presented her inaugural lecture as the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology on October 27, 2009, at Duke Divinity School. The title of the lecture was ‘The Poetry of...

Why I (still) confess the filioque by Faith and Theology on Oct 24, 2009In theology, Eastern Orthodoxy is the new black. These days it's harder and harder to find any serious Protestant commitment to the western confession of filioque. The denomination in which I'm teaching, for instance, omits the filioque from liturgic...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the American Church – 1931 or 2009? by The Church of Jesus Christ on Oct 22, 2009I know the facts of this statement, but I have to wonder if it could have been written yesterday? In New York, they preach about virtually everything; only one thing is not addressed, or is addressed so rarely that I have as yet been unable to hear...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer in New York by Faith and Theology on Oct 18, 2009Over the past few days I had a delightful time reading Volume 10 of the new edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's works, Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928-1931 (Fortress 2008), 764 pp. – a remarkable collection of letters, sermons, essays and lectures f...

Who am I? Bonhoeffer's theology through his poetry by Faith and Theology on Oct 4, 2009Bernd Wannenwetsch, ed., Who Am I? Bonhoeffer's Theology Through His Poetry (T&T Clark 2009), 259 pp. (thanks to T&T Clark for a copy)I've been waiting eagerly for this book, and I wasn't disappointed. An impressive range of scholars – incl...

Brief Review: BONHOEFFER AND THE RESISTANCE by Sabine Dramm [Vol. 2, #39] by The Englewood Review of Books on Oct 2, 2009tweetmeme_url = "http://erb.kingdomnow.org/brief-review-bonhoeffer-and-the-resistance-by-sabine-dramm-vol-2-39/"; tweetmeme_source = "tweetmeme"; A Brief Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer And The Resistance. Sabine Dramm. Hardback: Fortress Press...

Baptism, ordination and God’s calling forth of faith by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Sep 30, 2009Ben’s recent post on Baptism and ordination reminded me of some stuff that Ray Anderson once prepared on the relationship between the two. Anderson cautioned that we understand ‘ordination’ not only in relation to baptism, but also in relat...

The Service of Intercession by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Sep 28, 2009Karl Barth once noted that ‘Even within the world to which it belongs, it [the Church] does not exist ecstatically or eccentrically with reference to itself, but wholly with reference to them, to the world around. It saves and maintains its own lif...

Thinking baptism … and formation by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Sep 13, 2009Today, Halden (pbuh) had me thinking about baptism. I had this – or at least something like it – to contribute: Baptism is both God’s sign to humanity that we have been redeemed by Christ, and humanity’s sign to God that we are willin...

Around the traps: Jacques Ellul … et al by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Aug 6, 2009Gabriel Fackre posts on Time in Eternity: the Lively Life to Come. A timely challenge by Andrew Hamilton by way of a reconsideration of Bonhoeffer’s ethics. Byron Smith offers some thoughts on Rowan Williams ‘two styles of Anglicanism.