The 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion included three Bonhoeffer sessions devoted to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with one of those sessions held jointly with the Niebuhr Society. Session 1: Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit and Niebuhr Society Theme: The Revolutionary Gospel: Paul Lehmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Reinhold Niebuhr in the Context of Union [...]
Bonhoeffer Sessions at the 2023 AAR Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
Available Now: Madang Podcast Interview: Dr. Reggie Williams (author of Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus)
A conversation with ethicist Reggie Williams about Bonhoeffer, Black Jesus, racism, and more. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim is the host of Madang podcast which holds conversations on Christianity, religion, and culture. The podcast is hosted by The Christian Century. Episode 26 of Madang (March 14th, 2023) Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts Watch [...]
Book Review – Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land Without Reformation (2021)
Review of Joel Looper’s Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land Without Reformation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. $39.00. 260 pp. Baylor Univ. Press, 2021 In a 1934 letter to M. Gandhi, in which Bonhoeffer was enquiring about the possibility of visiting Gandhi in India, Bonhoeffer revealed one of the reasons for this request. He stated, “I [...]
Why is Dietrich Bonhoeffer Relevant Today?
In 2019, the editors of “Faith & Leadership” – the online magazine of Leadership Education at Duke University, asked five theologians to reflect on the question: why is Bonhoeffer relevant today? In light of ongoing political and civil discord in the United States and around the globe, these reflections – by Stephen R. Haynes, Reggie [...]
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance. Reggie L. Williams. Waco TX: Baylor Univ. Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-60258-804-2. xii+184 pgs. $24.00 Bonhoeffer studies of the past sixty-five years have traveled along two streams, sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged. Call them thinking about Bonhoeffer and thinking with him. Thinking about Bonhoeffer has [...]