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Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Carl E. Krieg
Carl E. Krieg
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Assistant Professor of Religion, Thiel College, Greenville, Pa.
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Bonhoeffer's fragments from prison are some of the few bits of thought which have caused real theological excitement and bewilderment in recent years. In these letters and papers Bonhoeffer explores the theological problem of Christian faith and ethics in the mid-twentieth century. In an attempt to understand these fragments, we shall first outline the ‘situation’ Bonhoeffer describes and in which he himself lives. Then we shall summarise the ‘problem’ which this situation presents to theology, and, finally, explore Bonhoeffer's hints at a ‘solution’.

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Religious Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1973, pp. 81 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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page 82 note 1 Bonhoeffer, , Dietrich, , Letters and Papers from Prison, Rev. Ed. (New York, The Macmillan Co., 1967), p. 140.Google Scholar

page 82 note 2 Loc. cit.

page 83 note 1 Bethge, , Eberhard, , Bonhoeffer's Christology and His ‘Religionless Christianity,’, in U.T.S.Q.R., Vol. XXIII, Number 1, Fall, 1967, p. 69.Google Scholar

page 83 note 2 Letters and Papers, p. 118.

page 83 note 3 ibid., p. 144.

page 83 note 4 ibid., p. 170.

page 83 note 5 ibid., p. 164.

page 84 note 1 Letters and Papers, p. 170.

page 84 note 2 ibid., p. 141.

page 84 note 3 ibid., p. 140.

page 84 note 4 Loc. cit.

page 84 note 5 ibid., pp. 140–1.

page 84 note 6 ibid., p. 141.

page 85 note 1 Letters and Papers, p. 130.

page 85 note 2 ibid., p. 183. See also: Letters and Papers, pp. 87, 95, 182, 190, 207–8.

page 85 note 3 ibid., p. 188.

page 85 note 4 ibid., pp. 167–8, 187.

page 85 note 5 ibid., p. 187. Bonhoeffer uses ‘secularity’ in much the same way as Harvey Cox. The idols are gone; Yahweh is not. Cox, , Harvey, , The Secular City (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1965.)Google Scholar

page 85 note 6 ibid., p. 188.

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page 86 note 2 Loc. cit.

page 86 note 3 ibid., p. 169.

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page 86 note 6 ibid., p. 172.

page 87 note 1 Letters and Papers, pp. 118, 172.

page 87 note 2 ibid., p. 188.

page 87 note 3 ibid., p. 144.

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page 90 note 1 Smith, , Ronald, Gregor, ed., World Come of Age (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961), pp. 79–80.Google Scholar See also: Marty, , Martin, , ed., The Place of Bonhoeffer (New York, Association Press, 1962), p. 17.Google Scholar U.S.Q.R., Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Fall, 1967, pp. 66–7.

page 90 note 2 Letters and Papers, pp. 164 f., 187 f.

page 90 note 3 ibid., p. 142. See p. 164.

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page 91 note 2 ibid., p. 202.

page 91 note 3 ibid., p. 47.

page 91 note 4 ibid., p. 176.

page 91 note 5 ibid., pp. 182 ff., 191.