Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context

"First published 1993 as Theologische perspektiven nach Dietrich Bonhoeffer"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The disquieting legacy: characteristics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology -- Meaning and promise: considerations regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer's late theology -- Belief in a non-religious world: must one choose between Barth and Bonhoeffer? -- End, or Comeback of religion? Forty-five years after Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thesis of a religionless Christianity -- Resistance by word and political resistance in ethical responsibility: the individual, the groups, and the church -- Discrimination against Jews in 1933: the real test for Bonhoeffer's ethics -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's ecumenical ethic of peace -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological ethics and human rights -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's practice of conscience and ethical theory of conscience -- Conflicts of conscience in the resistance against the National Socialist regime of injustice: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account "After ten years" -- The Bonhoeffer-Dohnanyi Circle in opposition and resistance to Hitler's regime of violence: interim report on a research project -- The November crimes of 1938 and German Protestantism: ideological and theological presuppositions for the toleration of the pogrom -- Dealing with guilt in the church's confession and in the justice system after 1945 -- Suppressed responsibility: Protestant church and theology forty years after the day of the end of the war.