A Conversation with Barry Harvey In this 2016 interview with Dr. Barry Harvey, he discusses his latest book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity (Wipf & Stock, 2015). Watch the Video Interview Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he [...]
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context: An Interview with Peter Hooton Q: We’re excited to talk with you about your new book which explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s understanding of religionless Christianity. What initially drew you to Bonhoeffer as a topic for research, specifically his incipient thoughts on religionless Christianity? PH: I enjoy his company. His [...]
Taking Hold of the Real
Barry Harvey, Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity, James Clarke & Co, Cambridge: 2016, xiii + 342 pages, £21.50, pbk. The subtitle of the book indicates a book in two minds, or at least with two distinct emphases. One focus is the theology, in particular the late theology, [...]
The Secular Church
Review of Paul O. Bischoff, The Secular Church, 2015; 120 pages The Secular Church is a study of the predicament of the contemporary Christian churches, guided by Bonhoeffer´s ecclesiological insights drawn from the implications of his Chalcedonian Christology. Two other main theological sources are evoked to buttress the author’s argument, Karl Barth and Martin Luther. [...]
Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity
Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldiness of Christianity By Diane Reynolds At the end of Barry Harvey’s Taking Hold of the Real, Harvey contrasts the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany to Andre Trocme’s church at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which offered shelter to thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. In doing so, [...]