Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologians for a Post-Christian World

Wolf Krötke, acclaimed as a foremost interpreter of the theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, demonstrates the continuing significance of these two theologians for Christian faith and life. This book enables readers to look with fresh eyes at the theologies of Barth and Bonhoeffer and offers new insights for reading the history of modern theology. It also helps churches see how they can be creative minorities in societies that have forgotten God.
Translated by a senior American scholar of Christian theology and an accomplished translator, this is the first major translation of Krötke's work in the English language. The book is necessary reading for those studying Barth, Bonhoeffer, and other developments in modern German dogmatics.
Contents
Foreword by George Hunsinger
Part 1: Karl Barth
1. Karl Barth as Theological Conversation Partner: Personal Experiences between East and West, and the Challenges of Barth's Theology (2013)
2. Karl Barth: Humanity and Religion (1981)
3. God and Humans as Partners: On the Significance of a Central Category in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics (1986)
4. Barth's Christology as Exemplary Exegesis (1996)
5. "The Sum of the Gospel": Karl Barth's Doctrine of Election in the Church Dogmatics (2010)
6. "Man as Soul of His Body": Notes on the Anthropological Foundations of Pastoral Care in Karl Barth's Theology (2003)
7. Theology and Resistance in Karl Barth's Thinking: A Systematic-Theological Account (2005)
8. The Church as "Provisional Representation" of the Whole World Reconciled in Christ: The Foundations of Karl Barth's Ecclesiology (2006)
Part 2: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
9. The Meaning of God's Mystery for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of the Religions and "Religionlessness" (1984)
10. "Sharing in God's Suffering": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of a "Religionless Christianity" (1989)
11. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of God (2006)
12. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Exegesis of the Psalms (2012)
13. "God's Hand and Guidance": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Language for God in a Time of Resistance (2003)
14. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of His Resistance: The Risk of Freedom and Guilt (2009)
15. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Understanding of the State: Theological Grounds, Practical Consequences, and Interpretation in East and West (2013)
16. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Nonreligious Interpretation of Biblical Concepts" and the Current Missionary Challenge of the Church (2007)
Appendix: "I Refuse to Let Anyone Else Share What Belongs to You Alone": Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters to Maria von Wedemeyer from the Time of Their Engagement (2011)
Indexes