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Free Download Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Revolutionary Faith and Grace in the Face of Evil by Dennis A. Smith
English | November 14, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DN6WYLXD | 79 pages | EPUB | 0.27 Mb
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was more than a theologian-he was a courageous voice for justice during one of history’s darkest hours. In Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Revolutionary Faith and Grace in the Face of Evil, delve into the life of a man who dared to confront the Nazi regime with unshakable resolve and unbreakable faith. From his early influences abroad to his pioneering role in founding the Confessing Church, Bonhoeffer’s life is an extraordinary testament to moral courage. His revolutionary ideas on "costly grace" would inspire countless others to embrace a faith that demands action, even at great personal cost.

Free Download Michael Mawson, "Standing under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology "
English | ISBN: 0567709469 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 410 KB
Standing Under the Cross focuses on Bonhoeffer’s rich theological and ethical thinking. It places Bonhoeffer in conversation with a wide range of modern theologians, including Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jürgen Moltmann, and James Cone. The book gives particular attention to hermeneutics, the body, and Bonhoeffer’s rich reflections on community and discipleship. Mawson attends to the complex ways in which these aspects of Bonhoeffer’s thinking work together, and shows how they can assist us in responding to some of the challenges confronting us today.

Free Download Kevin O’Farrell, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception "
English | ISBN: 0567709396 | 2023 | 196 pages | EPUB | 432 KB
Engaging with the many debates about the meaning and character of Bonhoeffer’s late resistance theology and action, particularly as it relates to his participation in the attempted coup d’état against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception attends to Bonhoeffer’s understanding of the exception. Resisting the common reduction of the exception to a political or ethical concept, O’Farrell argues that the exception for Bonhoeffer is an extraordinary moment in history that disarms persons, impinging on one’s understanding of politics and ethics. Through a wide engagement with the Bonhoeffer corpus, this book claims that this leads to distinctive narrations of key concepts in Bonhoeffer’s corpus: responsibility, the free venture, simple obedience, and action beyond the law. It also offers a different portrait of Bonhoeffer to contemporary narrations. The Bonhoeffer that emerges is neither a Niebuhrian realist, a pacifist, or a religious fanatic, but one who is impelled to act apart from the law without this action becoming arbitrary. This Bonhoeffer provides a hopeful political witness that seeks a world beyond the conflicts and divisions of this age.

Free Download Robert Vosloo, "Bonhoeffer and the Responsibility for a Coming Generation: Doing Theology in a Time Out of Joint "
English | ISBN: 0567711064 | 2024 | 392 pages | EPUB, PDF | 709 KB + 40 MB
This volume draws together a selection of high-quality presentations at the 13th International Bonhoeffer Congress held in January 2020 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The theme of the conference was "How a coming generation is to go on living? Bonhoeffer and the response to our present crisis and hope." The selected essays engage thoroughly and creatively with this concern to take responsibility not only for our own personal and communal life in all of its complexity and richness but also for the ethos and society that future generations will inherit from us. The pertinence of Bonhoeffer’s question is addressed in these contributions anew as we experience threats on a global level to socio-political, economic and inter-religious stability and solidarity. Attention is also given to some important challenges experienced in the so-called global South, and the reality of climate change and ecological devastation implies that the question of how future generations are going to go on living is linked to the fact that we live on a planet that is in jeopardy. Also included as an appendix is the powerful sermon preached by the South African Anglican archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba at the opening worship service of the congress.

Free Download Charles Marsh, "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0307390381, 0307269817 | EPUB | pages: 528 | 25.9 mb
Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography

Free Download John W. de Gruchy Stellenbosch University, "Bonhoeffer’s Questions: A Life-Changing Conversation"
English | ISBN: 1978707835 | 2019 | 214 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
While in prison during the Third Reich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer raised several "core questions" in his correspondence with his close friend Eberhard Bethge: How shall future generations live? Who is Jesus Christ actually, for us, today? What does it mean to be truly human? And who am I? In Bonhoeffer’s Questions, John W. de Gruchy explores the development of each question in the course of Bonhoeffer’s life, how he attempted to answer them, and how each prompted further questions in an ongoing conversation with himself, with others, and now with us today. De Gruchy does this within the framework of his own life-long and life-changing conversation with Bonhoeffer in the context of South Africa from the beginning of the apartheid era to the present day. He also describes how he has come to know Bonhoeffer as a theological witness to Christ, a prophet of God’s justice, and a Christian humanist before proceeding with a series of questions addressed to Bonhoeffer with the reader in mind. These range from the debate about God and the future of Christianity to the involvement of Christians and the church in political struggles today.

Free Download Peter Hooton, "Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context"
English | ISBN: 1978709331 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB, PDF | 415 KB + 3 MB
The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western civilization to be "approaching a completely religionless age" to which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores Bonhoeffer’s own response to this challenge-his concept of a religionless Christianity-and its place in his broader theology. It does this, first, by situating the concept in a present-day Western socio-historical context. It then considers Bonhoeffer’s understanding and critique of religion, before examining the religionless Christianity of his final months in the light of his earlier Christ-centred theology. The place of mystery, paradox, and wholeness in Bonhoeffer’s thinking is also given careful attention, and non-religious interpretation is taken seriously as an ongoing task. The book aspires to present religionless Christianity as a lucid and persuasive contemporary theology; and does this always in the presence of the question which inspired Bonhoeffer’s theological journey from its academic beginnings to its very deliberately lived end-the question "Who is Jesus Christ?"

Free Download Chris Dodson Decatur Christian School, "The God Who Is Given: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology and Religionless Christianity"
English | ISBN: 1978700849 | 2021 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 468 KB + 7 MB
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s notions of religionless Christianity have provoked a great deal of theological inquiry, much of which has hindered evangelical reception of Bonhoeffer’s work. By setting religionless Christianity in the context of Bonhoeffer’s Lutheran sacramental theology, Chris Dodson furthers Bonhoeffer’s belief that receiving the God given in the sacraments both resists Christians’ proclivity towards religious, self-serving ends and draws Christians into a life of robust faith and love. Receiving Christ in baptism, the Eucharist, and confession serves to instill, sustain, locate, and vitalize the form of life that Bonhoeffer calls "religionless." The church and its core practices are not abandoned in Bonhoeffer’s prison letters; they are reengaged with a more proper disposition: faithful love of God and neighbor. In this way, common evangelical skepticisms about Bonhoeffer’s later theology can be assuaged. Bonhoeffer’s theology, rightly construed, provokes evangelicals, and particularly American evangelicals, to reconsider and restructure their worship along the lines of a religionless Christianity that promotes a deeper faith resulting from a more vigorous encounter with Christ as he gives himself over to his people.

Free Download Joanna Tarassenko, "The Spirit of Polyphony: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Musical Pneumatology "
English | ISBN: 0567713571 | 2024 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 570 KB + 3 MB

Free Download Cole Jodon, "Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology"
English | ISBN: 1978711948 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 585 KB + 3 MB
Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology presents a fresh approach to church unity and discipleship from a familiar voice. Building constructively from the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cole Jodon offers an account of ecumenism in which the church is understood to be united as the person of Christ – a unity that is concrete today through active obedient discipleship. To develop this theology, Jodon draws from Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical engagement, which is deepened through the theology of Bonhoeffer’s wider corpus. Jodon illumines Bonhoeffer’s dynamic understanding of the church, its unity, and the manner in which that unity is made concrete in the world. At its heart, this book serves to advance an ecumenical theology enlivened by the living and present Christ who calls his church to follow after him together.