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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Bonhoeffer"”.
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Stellvertretung as Vicarious Suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… a consistent and central hermeneutic for Bonhoeffer. This thesis demonstrates that, in contrast to other translations, a more precise interpretation of Bonhoeffer’s use of Stellvertretung would be ‘vicarious suffering’. For Bonhoeffer Stellvertretung as ‘vicarious suffering’ illuminates …
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Imago Dei and the earthly life : the theological anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
… Through reading the early writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in historical context, this dissertation shows how he provides resources we need to think through an anthropology that properly attends to the vital role relations between the self, the neighbor, and creation play in our being made in the …
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Solidarity and salvation : the relationship between personal transformation and community in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… grounded in community existence and experience. Bonhoeffer's understanding and experience of community provide key insights into this dynamic relationship. The development of his theology, shaped by his experience of struggle and solidarity in Nazi Germany, can also provide valuable resources for …
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Looking at Illegal Immigration in the United States through the Lenses of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… immigration. Using the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the paper attempts to uncover approaches to tackle this issue from a state, church, and individual Christian perspective. Chapter 1 begins with an introduction to the paper as well as a case for the validity of nations and laws. It also …
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Understanding the world better than it understands itself : the theological hermeneutics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
This dissertation argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work is best understood as a consistent project of theological hermeneutics with an ecclesial focus. The project examines Bonhoeffer's life and writings with the intention of demonstrating how theological hermeneutics is at the center of his …
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A Friendship for Others: Bonhoeffer and Bethge on the Theology and Practice of Friendship
A Friendship for Others: Bonhoeffer and Bethge on the Theology and Practice of Friendship Preston Parsons This study considers the theology and practice of friendship in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s academic writing, his pastoral work and thought, his involvement in the Abwehr plot, and his prison …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
… on the works of Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil, to read this disparate constellation of writers as making up a loose theological movement, one that pushed for a resignification of theology’s central signs and whose importance has yet to be reckoned by theology itself. …
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The Place of Theology in a World Come of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Paul Ramsey.
… voices in that debate: theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and ethicist Paul Ramsey. What follows is my attempt to examine, explain, and expound upon the philosophies of both men in an endeavor to more fully understand their perspectives and the implications each has for civilization and religion …
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From Response to Responsibility: A Study of the Other and Language in the Ethical Structure of Responsibility in the Writings of Bonhoetrer and Levinas
… responsibility in the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995). It argues that 'the other' and 'language' are both indispensable and correlative elements in the analysis of ethical responsibility presented by these two authors. Chapter one outlines the …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
… Raskolnikov's faith in light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's understanding of Christian discipleship in <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>. Raskolnikov is to a certain extent the same sort of Christian disciple whom Bonhoeffer describes in <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>. According to …
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Nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics of excitable systems
… be described as dynamical systems through the Bonhoeffer-Van der Pol equations. The Bonhoeffer-Van der Pol equations yield either excitable system behavior or oscillator dynamics, depending on a control parameter. Since the neurons are microscopic objects in a fluctuating environment, it is …
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The formation of the prisoner-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a close reading of Letters and papers from prison, from April 5,1943 to July 20, 1944
This thesis seeks to take Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prison experience seriously as a spiritually and theologically formative journey through liminal displacement. Using the anthropological theory of liminality as a lens for analysis, it offers a close reading of Bonhoeffer’s prison writings, examining …
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A Musico-Pneumatology for Christian Formation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Polyphony of Life in the Spirit
A small corner of specialist Bonhoeffer scholarship has long-recognised that the musico-theological discussions in his prison letters go beyond simple musings written to a like-minded soul. In recent years Bonhoeffer’s creative use of musical terminology has even sparked a highly constructive …
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A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury
… nuances her model by resourcing Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological assessment of “limit” from his commentary on Genesis <em>Creation and Fall</em>. Situating Moral Injury within the limit model of disability will help provide pastoral resources and theological nuance to the individual …
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Faithful Reformation : the Importance of Apostolicity and Consensual Orthodoxy for Emerging Christian Expressions
… including Vincent of Lérins and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, using historical, theological, ethnographic and narrative inquiry and analysis methods. Our review of literature from EC authors provides insights into debates that led to fracturing of the EC movement and that offer challenges to …
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Christology from below : an examination of the black christology of Takatso Mofokeng in the context of the development of black theology in South Africa and in critical relation to the christological ethic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… with the Christological assistance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The emergence of Black Theology in South Africa since the early 1970s is placed in the context of the black struggle for liberation and the philosophy of Black Consciousness. The result, theologically, is seen to be an anthropological …
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A study in Christianity, Marxist ideology and historical engagement with special reference to the liberation theology of José Miguez Bonino
… on "thinking in two spheres" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The use which Miguez Bonino makes of the concept of the Kingdom of God to emphasize the eschatological significance of human historical action is also outlined. The Marxist emphasis on human responsibility for historical initiative is …
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'A Deep and Imperturbable Joy': Saving Christianity from Postmodern Evangelical Heresy
… is the 'religionless Christianity' of Dietrich Bonhoeffer--the idea that Christianity is not a religious compartment of life but the whole being of man in relation to God. This concept is further supported by Orthodox liturgist Alexander Schmemann's discussion of Christianity as the 'end of …
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