Clements, K. W.

Appointments with Bonhoeffer : personal faith and public responsibility in a fragmenting world / Keith Clements. - London, UK ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, c2022. - xi, 203 p. ; 25 cm. - T&T Clark new studies in Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics . - T&T Clark new studies in Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics. .

Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer for us today? -- After martyrdom : Bonhoeffer's posthumous journey through Cold War East Europe -- Public ethics and the reception of Bonhoeffer in Britain -- Centuries apart yet neighbours in spirit : the worldly holiness of Thomas Traherne and Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- 'If you English had read him you would not have needed to read Karl Barth' : Bonhoeffer on the Catholic Modernist Friedrich von H�ugel -- Between a Confessing Church and contextual ethics : Bonhoeffer, the crisis of 1934 and the continuing ecumenical quest for a public theology -- 'What does it mean to tell the truth?' The 2015 allegation against Bishop George Bell in the light of Bonhoeffer's 1943 prison essay -- From east and west, from north and south : the gospel subverting tribalism -- Life together, life for others : Bonhoeffer's wisdom for ministry in a post-Christian world -- Belonging wholly to the world : the still unrealised ecumenical calling -- 'The burning fire of love, the nucleus of reconciliation' : re-learning what love means -- Ultimate and penultimate : some Bonhoefferian insights for faith and democracy in a time of extremisms -- The 'who am I?' question writ large : Britain, Europe and the churches -- 'Are we still of any use?' Words for failing public servants and frightened citizens -- A new ethic--or the end of ethics? Love against the plague.

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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.


Christian ethics.
Public theology.