Taking Stock of Bonhoeffer

Part I Historical Context; Chapter 1 Bonhoeffer and Moltke: Politics and Faith in a Time of Crisis; Chapter 2 An Article Marking the Centenary of Bonhoeffer’s Birth: Faith, Political Duty and One Man’s Costly Grace; Part II Bonhoeffer and the Bible; Chapter 3 How Theologians Decide: German Theologians on the Eve of Nazi Rule 1 This Chapter is based on the 1999 Annual Hartley Lecture at Hartley Victoria College in Manchester. I am grateful to the College for the invitation to give the lecture and to those who asked questions. I am also grateful to the staff of the Institute of Germanic Studies, London, for assistance in the preparation of this Chapter ; Chapter 4 ‘In the Bible it is God who speaks’: Peake and Bonhoeffer on Reading Scripture ; Chapter 5 Guilt and Promise in Bonhoeffer’s ‘Jonah’ 1 This Chapter is a significantly revised version of a paper given in Oxford on 6 January, 2006, at the conference Bonhoeffer’s theology through the lens of his poetry. I am grateful to all who commented on the paper, and in Part Icular to Bernd Wannenwetsch for editorial guidance; Chapter 6 The Evangelisation of Rulers: Bonhoeffer’s Political Theology; Part III Bonhoeffer and Ethics; Chapter 7 Ethics and Materialist Hermeneutics; Chapter 8 The Sacrament of Ethical Reality: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Ethics for Christian Citizens; Chapter 9 Bonhoeffer’s Interfaith Encounters; Chapter 10 ‘In the Sphere of the Familiar’: Heidegger and Bonhoeffer; Part IV Taking Stock; Chapter 11 Reading Bonhoeffer in Britain;