Chapter
The Early Formation of a Christian Humanist
Common Cause with Secular Humanists
Christian Humanism as “Mature Worldliness”
The Theological Roots of Christian Humanism
Secular Objections to Bonhoeffer’s Christological Humanism
Theological Objections to Bonhoeffer’s Christological Humanism
Introduction: The Economic Downward Spiral
The Humanizing of Bonhoeffer’s Theology
Economics and Theology: Basic Assumptions
Economics as a Reality Dependent on the Reality of Christ
The Bourgeois Church and the Proletariat
The Value of the Human Being
Economic Systems and Humanity
The Church and Economic Critique
Conclusion: Toward a Theological “Critical Theory”—And More
Transition to Discipleship
Transition to the Prison Theology
Worldliness in Letters and Papers from Prison
From Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiology to His Anthropology
From Bonhoeffer’s Anthropology to His Ecclesiology
The Church and the Theological Concept of Sociality
Ecclesiology, Vita Christiana, and a World Come of Age
The Continuing Significance of the Church in a World Come of Age
The Shape of the Pacifism of the Early 1930s
The Subjacent Christology of Nachfolge
Bonhoeffer’s Interpreters
What It Is to Be a Human Being
Retrieving the Practice of Discipleship
The Dialectic of Faith and Obedience
Activity and Passivity in Christian Existence
The Image of Christ and Human Imagination
The Universal Dimension—The Concrete Encounterwith the Other
The Christological Qualification—Being Christ for the Other
The Universal and the Specific—On the Mandates as a Concrete Response to Reality