Written by a diverse and global group of scholars with expertise in Bonhoeffer’s theology and ethics, this volume demonstrates and interrogates Bonhoeffer’s focus on and contribution to the ethics of everyday life.
Can Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings improve our morality in day-to-day life? Far from being exclusively relevant to exceptional circumstances, this work reveals that Bonhoeffer’s moral vision focuses on everyday human flourishing. His work is highly relevant to yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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Introduction – Dallas Gingles (Southern Methodist University, USA) and Michael DeJonge (University of South Florida, USA)
Section One: Bonhoeffer as Ethicist
1. Bonhoeffer's Challenge to Nation and Culture – Victoria Barnett (United States Holocaust Museum, USA – retired)
2. What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth?: An Exemplary Realization of Bonhoeffer’s Everyday Ethics – Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel (University of Vienna, Austria)
3. The Pedagogue Leading up to Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Educative Purpose of Human Law” – Esther Reed (University of Exeter, UK)
Section Two: Between Bonhoeffer and Everyday Life
4. Before Resistance: Bonhoeffer on the Cultivation of Everyday Life – Michael DeJonge (University of South Florida, USA)
5. Responsibility: The Ethics of Everyday Life – Dallas Gingles (Southern Methodist University, USA)
6. Bonhoeffer on the State (Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist University, USA – retired)
7. Telling the Truth in the Face of Social and Political Pressure: Lessons from Bonhoeffer (Joshua Mauldin ,Center of Theological Inquiry, USA)
8. Citizenship and its Discontents: Bonhoeffer’s Lessons for Christological Politics in a Liberal State (Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, USA)
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