Bonhoeffer and Interpretive Theory

In view of Bonhoeffer's contemporary readers, these essays focus on the task of articulating and clarifying a hermeneutically self-conscious approach to interpreting and ultimately understanding Bonhoeffer. Methods and approaches examined include themes such as gender, religion, race, ecology, politics, philosophy, literature among others.

How does the contemporary reader make sense of the life and writings of such an icon as Dietrich Bonhoeffer? The essays in this volume seek to address this question by carefully examining the social, cultural, religious and intellectual locations that inform the Sitz im Leben of a vast readership of Bonhoeffer. The focus of each of the essays is thus on the task of articulating and clarifying a hermeneutically self-conscious and responsible approach to interpreting and understanding Bonhoeffer. The authors come from widely divergent backgrounds, both geographically and intellectually, and therefore offer a wide spectrum of dialogue. Methods and approaches examined in the essays discuss themes such as gender, religion, race, ecology, politics, philosophy, literature among others.

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Peter Frick is Associate Professor and Academic Dean at St. Paul's University College, University of Waterloo. He is interested in theology, philosophy and biblical studies. His recent books are: A Dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Collected Essays (2009) and the edited works Bonhoeffer's Intellectual Formation (2008), Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer (2010) and Paul in the Grip of Continental Philosophers (2013).

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Contents: Peter Frick: Understanding Bonhoeffer: from Default to Hermeneutic Reading Markus Franz: Inside and Beyond the «Bonhoeffer-Archive» - Foucaultian Reflections on the Discourse of Bonhoeffer's Life and Theology Lisa E. Dahill: «There's Some Contradiction Here»: Gender and the Relation of Above and Below in Bonhoeffer Josiah Young: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Three Black Writers: James W. Johnson, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen Carlos R. Caldas: Interpreting Bonhoeffer «From Below» in the Context of Latin American Poverty Robert R. Vosloo: Interpreting Bonhoeffer in South Africa? The Search for a Historical and Methodological Responsible Hermeneutic Andres S. K. Tang: Interpreting Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology of Sociality through the Lens of Confucianism Humanism Paul S. Chung: Interpreting Dietrich Bonhoeffer in East Asian Perspective: Theologia Crucis, Minjung, and Buddhist Compassion Joel Burnell: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Polish Opposition (1968-1989) Victoria J. Barnett: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Relevance for a Post-Holocaust Christian Theology Eva Harasta: Bonhoeffer's Lutheran Ecclesiology and Inter-Religious Dialogue: A Dogmatic Reading of Bonhoeffer Larry Rasmussen: Bonhoeffer: Ecological Theologian.