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Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology

Encounters with the Unknown Christ

Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology

Encounters with the Unknown Christ

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978708259
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 27/03/2020
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 22.8 cm
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 this term which sheds light on not only Bonhoeffer’s late work, but his theological development as a whole.
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

Eleanor McLaughlin, Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge

Eleanor McLaughlin is lecturer in theology and ethics at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, and research associate at the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture.

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