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God Who Is Given

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology and Religionless Christianity

God Who Is Given

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology and Religionless Christianity

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978700840
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 03/05/2021
Width: 16.3 cm
Height: 24 cm

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.

Chapter I The God Who Is Given: Luther and the Sacraments

Chapter II Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology

Chapter III Bonhoeffer’s Theology Of The Sacraments

Chapter IV Faithful Habitation Of A Religious World

Chapter V Among The Iconoclasts: Un-Conceiving God

Chapter VI Sacraments Against Religion: Receiving The God Who Is Given

Chris Dodson

Chris Dodson (PhD, University of Aberdeen) teaches theology, history, and literature at Decatur Christian School.

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