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 [...]