Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology : Encounters with the Unknown Christ

McLaughlin, Eleanor/ Williams, Rowan (FRW)

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978708273
• DDC分類 230

Full Description

In the last years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began work on an idea that he called unbewußtes Christentum, "unconscious Christianity." While Bonhoeffer's other ideas from this period have been extensively studied and are important in the field of theology and beyond, this idea has been almost completely ignored. For the first time in Bonhoeffer scholarship, Eleanor McLaughlin provides a definition of unconscious Christianity, based on a close reading and analysis of the texts in which Bonhoeffer mentioned the term. From a variety of surviving texts, from a scribbled marginal note in his Ethics manuscript to the fiction he wrote in prison, she constructs a detailed definition of unconscious Christianity that sheds light not only on Bonhoeffer's late work but his theological development as a whole.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Constructing a Definition of Unconscious Christianity

Chapter 1: Bonhoeffer as a Member of the Bürgertum

Chapter 2: Unconscious Christianity in Four Texts

Chapter 3: Defining Unconscious Christianity

Part 2: Situating Unconscious Christianity within Bonhoeffer's Theology

Chapter 4: Unconscious Christianity in Context: Within Bonhoeffer's Late Theology and Secondary Literature

Chapter 5: Unconscious Christianity as a Shift within Bonhoeffer's Theology

Conclusion: The Impact of Unconscious Christianity on Bonhoeffer Studies and Contemporary Theology