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Bonhoeffer and Non-Violence

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Zimmermann J.

Theologica Wratislaviensia

2016

vol. 11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer na 500 lat Reformacji

197-211

Jens Zimmermann closes this volume with a nuanced statement of Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the conspiracy to overthrow the government of Nazi Germany, including the attempted efforts to assassinate Hitler. Zimmermann responds both to those who argue that Bonhoeffer, as a pacifist, never took part in or condoned the plans to kill Hitler (see Nation et al., Bonhoeffer the Assassin?), and to those who claim that Bonhoeffer abandoned his earlier pacifism to adopt Reinhold Niebuhr’s “critical” or “Christian” realism. Zimmermann shows that Bonhoeffer argued instead that such extreme forms of political resistance are unique personal acts of free responsibility for the sake of others in obedience to Christ, and therefore do not provide theological or ethical justification for the use of violence.

Bonhoeffer’s Incarnational Humanism

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Zimmermann J.

Theologica Wratislaviensia

2016

vol. 11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer na 500 lat Reformacji

73-86

Among Bonhoeffer scholars, it is well known that Bonhoeffer regards being and becoming truly human as the goal of his Christ-centered theology. What has been largely overlooked, however, is that this “humanistic” interpretation of the Gospel aligns Bonhoeffer with the incarnational focus of patristic Christology and its central idea of theosis or deification. In this paper, I argue that Bonhoeffer’s focus on God taking human form allowed him to transcend his own particular Lutheran theological context and thus to become a truly ecumenical theologian in the same incarnational humanist tradition that was inaugurated by the church fathers.

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