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- Title
Election in Bonhoeffer's Ethics: Discerning a Late Revision.
- Authors
PUFFER, MATTHEW
- Abstract
Evidence that Bonhoeffer incorporates and responds to portions of Barth's Church Dogmatics II/2 in chapters thought to have been produced without access to Barth's fresh treatment of election mandate a revaluation of Bonhoeffer's controversial ethic and a reconsideration of the hermeneutic proper to his Ethics. Bonhoeffer's conception of election underwent a development from his public academic genesis in Sanctorum Communio to his posthumously published Ethics. His treatment of election in 'God's Love and the Disintegration of the World' demonstrates the doctrine's prominent role in his final attempts at reforming Christian ethics and his critique of all previous ethics. Attending to the influence of election illuminates developments in Bonhoeffer's thinking about two of the primary concepts associated with his Ethics- Stellvertretung and Schuldübernahme.
- Subjects
BONHOEFFER, Dietrich, 1906-1945; CHRISTIAN ethics; ELECTION (Theology); BARTH, Karl, 1886-1968; CHURCH Dogmatics (Book)
- Publication
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 3, p255
- ISSN
1463-1652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2400.2011.00621.x