The Bonhoeffer Reader

Contents

Contents Prefaceix Abbreviationsxiii Part 1 Student Writings: Berlin, Barcelona, New York 1. Paper on Historical and Pneumatological Interpretation of Scripture 3 2. Eulogy for Adolf von Harnack 15 3. Sanctorum Communio18 4. Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity 57 5. Basic Questions of a Christian Ethic 74 6. Act and Being92 7. Inaugural Lecture: The Anthropological Question in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology 110 8. Lecture on “War” 128 9. Concerning the Christian Idea of God 135 10. The Theology of Crisis and Its Attitude toward Philosophy and Science 143 Part 2 University Lectures 11. The History of Twentieth-Century Systematic Theology 159 12. The Nature of the Church 171 13. Creation and Fall210 14. Lectures on Christology 261 v Contents vi Part 3 Ecumenical and Pastoral Writings 15. Report on a Conference of the World Alliance 317 16. Draft for a Catechism: As You Believe, So You Receive 322 17. The Right to Self-Assertion 330 18. Thy Kingdom Come! The Prayer of the Church-Community for God’s Kingdom on Earth 340 19. Christ and Peace 352  Part 4 Theology and the Third Reich 20. The Führer and the Individual in the Younger Generation 359 21. The Church and the Jewish Question 370 22. The Jewish-Christian Question as Status Confessionis379 23. The Aryan Paragraph in the Church 382 24. What Should a Student of Theology Do Today? 389 25. Fanø Theses Paper and Address: The Church and the Peoples of the World 393 26. The Confessing Church and the Ecumenical Movement 398 27. Contemporizing New Testament Texts 415 28. On the Question of Church Communion 432 Part 5 Christian Life and Community 29. Discipleship455 30. Life Together514 31. Prayerbook of the Bible562 32. Protestantism without Reformation 568 Part 6 Christian Ethics and Public Life 33. Christ, Reality, and Good. Christ, Church, and World 594 34. Ultimate and Penultimate Things 613 35. Natural Life 631 36. History and Good [2]  636 37. The “Ethical” and the “Christian” as a Topic 667 38. The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates 685 39. Theological Position Paper on State and Church 699 40. Theological Position Paper on the Question of Baptism 717 41. Theological Position Paper on the Primus Usus Legis733 Contents vii Part 7: Theology from Prison: Worldly, Religionless Christianity 42. What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth? 749 43. Speech of the Major 757 44. Letters and Papers from Prison761 Appendix: The German Church Struggle and Resistance819 Bibliography823 Index of Biblical References 837 Index of Names 843 Index of Subjects 849 ...