BONHOEFFER BIBLIOGRAPHY: PRIMARY SOURCES AND SECONDARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Prepared by Clifford Green and Stephen Haynes

PRIMARY SOURCES

Bonhoeffer, “State and Church.” In William T. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey W. Bailey & Craig Hovey eds., An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, 286-302.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Balmer, Randall.  “Between God and the Führer,” review of Charles Marsh, Strange Glory, in New York Times Book Review, August 10, 2014.

Banman, Joel. Reading in the Presence of Christ: A Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Bibliology and Exegesis. Edinburgh: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2021.

Barnett, Victoria J. “Ecumenical Protestant Responses to the Rise of Nazism, Fascism, and Antisemitism during the 1920s and 1930s,” 356-79 in Rebecca Carter-Chand and Kevin Spicer eds., Religion, Ethnonationalism and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars. McGill University Press, 2022.

Bean, Alan. “The Afro-American roots of Bonhoeffer’s Christianity.” Baptist News Global, October 30, 2015; https://baptistnews.com/article/the-african-american-roots-of-bonhoeffers-christianity/#.YhkFA-jMI2w.

Boniface, Tim. Jesus, Transcendence and Generosity. Christology and Transcendence in Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.

Boyce, William. “The Unnatural in Bonhoeffer’s Ethics.” Paper delivered at the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, san Antonio, November, 2021.

Byle, Nik. “Temporality in Bonhoeffer’s Anthropology and Sacramentalism.” Evangelische Theologie 80.4 (2020): 256-266.

Byle, Nik. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Reinterpretation of Heidegger. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.

Cahill, Charlie. “The Pragmatic Roots of Bonhoeffer’s Ethics: A Reappraisal of Bonhoeffer’s Time at Union Theological Seminary, 1930-1931.” German Studies Review 36.1 (2013): 21-39.

Chandler, Andrew. “Have We an Ethic of Resistance?” Theology 98 (1995): 82-92.

Chapman, Stephen B. “Who Prays the Psalms? Bonhoeffer’s Christological Concentration and Psalm 69.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Clark, David W. A Preliminary Investigation and Critique of the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. MA thesis, Loyola University, 1968. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/2118.

Clements, Keith. Appointments with Bonhoeffer: Personal Faith and Public Responsibility in a Fragmenting World. T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2022.

Dean, Robert John. For the Life of the World. Jesu: Christ and the Church in the Theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Stanley Hauerwas. Th.D. dissertation, Toronto School of Theology, 2014. Eugene, Oregon, Pickwick Publications, 2016.

De Gruchy, John W. “Bonhoeffer’s Legacy and Kairos-Palestine.” Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 143 (July 2012): 67-80.

DeJonge, Michael P.: “Race is an Adiaphoron. The Place of Race in Bonhoeffer’s 1933 Writings.” Evangelische Theologie 80.4 (2020), 267–277. https://doi.org/10.14315/evth-2020-800406.

Emerton, David. God’s Church-Community: Ecclesiology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2020.

Evdokimov, Michel. Two Martyrs in a Godless World: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alexander Men. Afterword by Olivier Clément. New York: New City Press, 2021.

Fleming, D. & Lovat, T. “Self-other’ or ‘other-self-other’? A Conversation between Bonhoeffer and Levinas on Vulnerability.” The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies 1.1 (2013): 133-149.

Flowers, David D. “Christ, Community, & Christian Ethics: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” Website: The Centrality and Supremacy of Jesus Christ (June 20, 2016).

Franklin, Patrick S. “Bonhoeffer’s Anti-Logos and its Challenge to Oppression.” Crux 41.2 (2005).

Gides, David. “Bonhoeffer, Antifa, and the Moral Defensibility of Uncivil Disobedience.” Paper delivered to the Comparative Religious Ethics Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Gilbert, Felix.  “Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” 92-97 in Gilbert, A European Past: Memoirs 1905-1945 New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

Greggs, Tom. “Bearing Sin in the Church: The Ecclesial Hamartiology of Bonhoeffer,” 77–100 in Michael Mawson and Philip G. Ziegler, eds., Christ, Church, and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.

Greggs, Tom. “Bearing Sin in the Church: The Ecclesial Hamartiology of Bonhoeffer,” 77–100 in Michael Mawson and Philip G. Ziegler, eds., Christ, Church, and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics. London: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2016.

Greggs, Tom. Barth and Bonhoeffer as Contributors to a Post-Liberal Ecclesiology: Essays of Hope for a Fallen and Complex World. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2021.

Gilmour, Ian Y. “A Black Bonhoeffer?” Theology in Scotland 27.1 (2020): 53-68.

Halbach, Ross E. The Community of the Gentrified God: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Visible Ecclesiology and its Import for the North American Church’s Response to Gentrification. Master of Theology thesis, Western Seminary, Portland, OR, 2014. Self-published.

Harley, Jay, et al. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Perspectives on Costly Leadership. Nashville: Randall House, 2022. 

Hauerwas, Stanley. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Howard Yoder,” 207-222 in Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer eds., The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2007.

Hill, Phoebe. Heidegger, Bonhoeffer and the Concept of Home in Christian Youth Work: A Theological Vision for the Church’s Work with Young People. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Hooton, Peter. “Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in its Christological Context: An Interview with Peter Hooton.” Accessed at thebonhoeffercenter.org, March 30, 2021.

Hopkins, Theodore J. Christ, Church and World: Bonhoeffer and Lutheran Ecclesiology after Christendom. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021.

Huijgen, Arnold. “Bonhoeffer’s Approach of the Psalms as Incentive for Reading the Bible Theologically.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Jenkins, Julian N. R. “German Nationalism, Western Liberalism and the Kingdom of God: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Struggle Between Power and Conscience in the Ecumenical Movement, 1919-1933.” In Andrew Bonnell, Gregory Munro, & Martin Travers, eds., Power, Conscience and Opposition: Essays in German History in Honour of John A. Moses. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Jodon, Cole, “Truth-Telling and the Ecumenical Imperative to Proclaim the Commands of Christ.” Paper delivered to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Johnson, William Vincent. Suffering in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Critical Analysis. Unpublished thesis, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992.

Kim, Hyung Joo. Bearing Sin as Church Community: Bonhoeffer’s Hamartiology. T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2022.

Laffin, Michael. “Bonhoeffer and the Politics of Truth-Telling in an Age of Virtual Reality.” Paper delivered to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Looper, Joel. Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land without Reformation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021.

Lovat, Terence. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Interfaith Theologian and Practical Mystic.” Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 25.2 (2012): 176-188.

Lovat, Terence. “Practical Mysticism as Authentic Religiousness: A Bonhoeffer Case Study.” Australian Journal of Theology 6 (February 2006).

Leidenhag, Joanna. “Participatory Metaphysics and the Corporate Body of Christ: Participation in the Theology of Gottfried von Leibniz and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” Paper delivered to the Christian Systematic Theology Unity, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Lutter, Paul. “At the Edges of Resurrection: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Subversive Witness.”  Living Lutheran 6.1 (April, 2021): 27-29.

Mallard, Timothy S. “A Case Study in Strategic Moral Leadership: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1927-1945.” Research Project, Master of Strategic Studies, United States Army War College, 2014; http://publications.armywarcollege.edu.

Marsh, Charles. “Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer Delusions.” Religion and Politics (October 18, 2016); https://religionandpolitics.org/2016/10/18/eric-metaxas-bonhoeffer-delusions.

Marsh, Charles. “Foreword” to Stephen R. Haynes, The Battle for Bonhoeffer. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018, ix-xvi.

Mauldin, Joshua. Barth, Bonhoeffer and Modern Politics. London: Oxford, 2021.

Mawson, Michael. “Retrieving Bonhoeffer’s Prayerbook: Towards a Post-Holocaust Christological Reading of the Psalms.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Mayfield, D. L. “The Ones Who Didn’t Resist: Most German Christians Weren’t Bonhoeffer.” The Christian Century 138.7 (April, 2021): 32-35.

McGarry, Joseph. “Christ After the Crown: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Post-Colonial Indigenous Theological Reflection.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Meyer, Barbara. “Command and Commandment in Times of Evil.” Paper delivered to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Morris, Julie, “Patriarchal Soteriology: Bonhoeffer’s Slip to Theological Colonialism.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Nation, Mark Thiessen. Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.

Nichols, Stephen J. Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2013.

Nielsen, Kirsten Busch, Ulrik Nissen and Christiane Tietz eds., Mysteries in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Copenhagen Bonhoeffer Symposium. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007.

Nissen, Ulrik. The Polity of Christ: Studies on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Chalcedonian Christology and Ethics. T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2021.

Osawa de Silva, Brendan R. “Prophetic Courage and the Will of God: Comparative Ethics through the Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Nishida Kitaro.” Journal of Interreligious Dialogue 8.3 (2012): 43-59.

Pally, Marcia. “Theological Resistance.” Review of Wolf Krötke, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologians for a Post-Christian World. Commonweal (January 16, 2021_.

Palmisano, Trey. Peace and Violence in the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: An Analysis of Method. Foreword by Reinhard Krauss. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016.

Pangritz, Andreas. “Postscript: After Thirty Years: Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” 187-209 in Pangritz, Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018.

Pangritz, Andreas. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: ‘Within, not Outside, the Barthian Movement’,” 149-186 in Pangritz, Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2^nd ed. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018.

Pfeifer, Hans. “Editor’s Afterword to the German Edition [of DBW 9],” 563-580 In Paul Duane Matheny, Clifford J. Green, and Marshall D. Johnson, eds., The Young Bonhoeffer: 1918-1927. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2003.

Phillips, Jacob. Human Subjectivity ‘In Christ’ in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology. Integrating Simplicity and Wisdom. London: T&T Clark, 2020.

Phillips, Jacob. “The Cup of Suffering: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship and German Expressionism,” 53-66. in Erik Tonning, et al., eds., Christianity, Modernism and Apocalypse. Studies in Religion and the Arts Series. Leiden: Brill Publications, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004282285_004.

Phillips, Jacob. “Dispossessed Science, Dispossessed Self: Wilhelm Dilthey and Bonhoeffer’s Christology Lectures of 1933.” InMike Mawson and Adam Clark, eds., Ontology and Ethics: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Contemporary Scholarship. Pickwick Publications, 2013

Phillips, Jacob. “Having to be Thus: On Bonhoeffer’s Reading of Goethe’s Iphegenia in Tauris. Oxford Journal of Literature and Theology 32.3 (September 2018): 357–370.

Phillips, Jacob. “Heteronomy and Conscience in the Third Reich in Joseph Ratzinger and Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” chapter 10 in Matthew Levering and Emery de Gaal., eds., Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2019.

Platten, Stephen. “Europe—Come of Age?” Theology 98 (1995): 100-110.

Radler, Karola. “Navigating a Road Through Law, Faith, and Justice.” Paper delivered at the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Randall, Samuel Paul. Stellvertretung as Vicarious Suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ph.D, dissertation, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, 2018.

Rayson, Dianne. Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene. Foreword by Larry Rasmussen. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021.

Rayson, Dianne. “Kill the Polluters: Pacifism, Tyrannicide, and Bonhoeffer’s Ethics for the Anthropocene.” Paper presented to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021. 

Ross, Jameson E. Bonhoeffer as Biblical Interpreter: Reading Scripture in 1930s Germany. London: T & T Clark, 2021.

Schlingensiepen, Ferdinand. Foreword to the Revised Edition of Reggie L. Williams, Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2021, ix-xiv.

Smith, Robert O. “Bonhoeffer Moment(s)?: Learning to See ‘From Below’ in Indian Country.” Theology Today 76.2 (2019): 145-157.

Spencer, Bonnell. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Prophet For Our Time. West Park, NY. Holy Cross Publications, 1966.

Strawn, Brent A. “Bonhoeffer on Enemies and Imprecation: A Commentary.” Paper delivered to the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Tang, Andres S. K. “Confucianism and Bonhoeffer on Individualism and Community: From the Perspective of the Way of Humanization,” Ching Feng: Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture 1.1 (2000):97-103.

Tang, Andres S. K. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and His Homiletics.” Hill Road 5:2 (2003): 51-65. [English abstract 51]. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003.

Tang Andres S. K. “The Ecclesiology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reflections on Sanctorum Communio.” Hill Road 7:2 (2004): 71-80 [English abstract 70]. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004.

Taylor, Derek. “Resistance Beyond the Two Kingdoms: Can Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Resistance Speak Today?” Paper delivered at the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Taylor, Derek. “Bonhoeffer’s Spirituality in a World Come of Age: Practicing Christ’s Apocalypse as the World Warms.” Paper delivered to the Christian Spirituality Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Tietz, Christiane. “Die Spiegelschrift Gottes ist schwer zu lessen”: Beiträge zur Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Studien 2. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020. [Includes the following in English: “Friedrich Schleiermacher and Dietrich Bonhoeffer”; “Standing ‘in the Tradition of Paul: Luther and Kierkegaard in the Tradition of Genuine Christian Thinking”; “Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Søren Kierkegaard”; “Bonhoeffer on the Uses and Limits of Philosophy”; “The Role of Jesus Christ for Christian Theology”; “The Ontological Structure of the Church”; “The Mysteries of Knowledge, Sin, and Shame”; and “Bonhoeffer’s Strong Christology in the Context of Religious Pluralism.”]

Torrance, Thomas F. “Cheap and Costly Grace.” Baptist Quarterly (London) 22.6 (1968): 290-312; https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.1968.11751246. Also in Torrance, God and Rationality. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, 56-85.

Valčo, Michal. “The Value of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theological-Ethical Reading of Søren Kierkegaard. European Journal of Science and Theology 13:1 (2017): 47-58.

Verhagen, Koert. Being and Action Coram Deo: Bonhoeffer and the Retrieval of Justification’s Social Import. London: T & T Clark, 2021.

Verhagen, Koert. “Justified ex nihilo: Retrieving Creation for Theological Anthropology with Luther and Bonhoeffer.” International Journal of Systematic Theology 21.2 (2019): 199-216.

Verhagen, Koert. Review of J. I. De Keijzer, Bonhoeffer’s Theology of the Cross. The Influence of Luther in ‘Act and Being.’; https://www.thebonhoeffercenter.org/index.php/component/content/article/12-book-reviews/210-bonhoeffer-s-theology-of-the-cross-the-influence-of-luther-in-act-and-being-a-review-by-koert-verhagen?Itemid=101.

Verhagen, Koert. “Confessing its Dangerous Concessions”: Bonhoeffer’s Problematization of the Sacred Autonomy of the Church.” Paper delivered at the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November, 2021.

Vosloo, Robert. “Time Out of Joint and Future-Oriented Memory: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Search for a Way to Deal Responsibly with the Ghosts of the Past.” Religions 8.3 (2017); DOI:103390/rel8030042.

Vosloo, Robert. “Bonhoeffer, Transcendence, and the ‘Turn to Religion,” 45–61 in Wessel Stoker and W. L. van der Merwe, eds., Culture and Transcendence: A Typology of Transcendence. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.

Vosloo, Robert. “The Feeling of Time: Bonhoeffer on Temporality and the Fully Human Life.” Scriptura 99 (2008): 337–49.

Walker, James Norman. The Relations of Church and the World in Bonhoeffer’s Nachfolge and Ethik. STM Thesis, Harvard University, 1964.

Wellman, David. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethic of Resistance in George W Bush’s America: A Call to Progressive Christians in the United States.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 60.1-2 (2006): 69-77.

Welker, Michael. “Bonhoeffer’s Theological Legacy in Widerstand und Ergebung. Sino-Christian Studies: An International Journal of Bible, Theology & Philosophy 1 (2006): 107-123. Taiwan: Chung Yuan Christian University.

Wells, Dan. “John Wesley, Bonhoeffer, and Authentic Christianity.” Seedbed.com, September 20, 2012.

Wiedersheim , Keith Andrews. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ideology, Praxis and his Influence on the Theology of Liberation”; https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2021.1925438.

Williams, Reggie L. “Preface to the Revised Edition,” Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2021, xv-xvi.

Willmer, Haddon. “Otto Dibelius: A Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Dietrich Bonhoeffer?”, Studies in Church History 15 (1978): 443-451.

Wise, Stephen A. and Balfour Brickner. “Explorations and Responses: Bigotry against Bonhoeffer in Jerusalem.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44:1 (2009): 315-323.

Wyller, Trygve. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” chapter 9 in Svein Rise and Staale Johannes Kristiansen, eds., Key Theological Thinkers: From Modern to Postmodern. London: Routledge, 2013.

Young, William T. “Agony, Art, and Community in the Theology of Miguel De Unamuno, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John MacMurray”; www.Semantic Scholar.org, 2014.