Jesus, Transcendence, and Generosity
Christology and Transcendence in Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Seiten
2018
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0126-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0126-7 (ISBN)
Tim Boniface argues that the works of Frei and Bonhoeffer can be read effectively alongside one another toward a robust theology of the transcendence of Jesus. Combining the two theologians in this way offers a nuanced contribution to the discussion about a way between fundamentalism and liberalism.
Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus’ transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a ‘middle way’ discussion.
Having outlined a rationale for a theology of Christological transcendence, this work describes in detail how both Frei and Bonhoeffer point towards a nuanced approach to the transcendence of Jesus—especially in terms of the importance of articulating that transcendence at the level of the ‘unsubstitutable historical particularity’ of Christ in the cultural-linguistic setting of the Christian community (Frei) and the impact of a theologia crucis and a participatory cosmic Christology on such thinking (Bonhoeffer).
Offering a unique summary of the key ways in which the two theologians’ works mutually critique and strengthen one another, Boniface then articulates a pneumatological emphasis lacking in both Frei and Bonhoeffer, stressing the supreme generosity of God at the heart of what it means to say that Jesus transcends.
Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus’ transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a ‘middle way’ discussion.
Having outlined a rationale for a theology of Christological transcendence, this work describes in detail how both Frei and Bonhoeffer point towards a nuanced approach to the transcendence of Jesus—especially in terms of the importance of articulating that transcendence at the level of the ‘unsubstitutable historical particularity’ of Christ in the cultural-linguistic setting of the Christian community (Frei) and the impact of a theologia crucis and a participatory cosmic Christology on such thinking (Bonhoeffer).
Offering a unique summary of the key ways in which the two theologians’ works mutually critique and strengthen one another, Boniface then articulates a pneumatological emphasis lacking in both Frei and Bonhoeffer, stressing the supreme generosity of God at the heart of what it means to say that Jesus transcends.
Tim Boniface earned his PhD at Durham University.
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. THE DOMESTICATION OF TRANSCENDENCE AND CHRISTOLOGY
Chapter 2. HANS FREI: TRANSCENDENCE, HERMENEUTICS AND CHRISTOLOGY
Chapter 3. HANS FREI: TRANSCENDENCE AND THE HERMENEUTICAL COMMUNITY
Chapter 4. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: MODERNITY AND TRANSCENDENCE
Chapter 5. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: TRANSCENDENCE, A THEOLOGIA CRUCIS, AND UNSUBSTITUTABILITY
Chapter 6. DIETRICH BONHOEFFFER: CHRISTOLOGY AND TRANSCENDENCE IN ETHICS AND LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.07.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 244 mm |
Gewicht | 603 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-9787-0126-8 / 1978701268 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-9787-0126-7 / 9781978701267 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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