Bonhoeffer scholar and former IBS-ELS Board Member, Dr. Jeffrey Pugh, was one of three members of the Elon University community to receive the 2022 Elon Medallion, the highest honor awarded by the university. From Elon University News, “Today at Elon” – Jeffrey Pugh During his 32 years at Elon, Professor of Religious Studies and Distinguished [...]
Book Announcement: The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts (by Karen V. Guth)
A new book by Dr. Karen Guth, Co-Chair of the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit of the American Academy of Religion Cambridge University Press, July 2022 What do we do when a beloved comedian known as “America’s Dad” is convicted of sexual assault? Or when the man who wrote “all men are created equal” [...]
IBS-ELS Webinar – Book Discussion: Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology (by Cole Jodon) – Recording Now Available
Conversing with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Discipleship, Ecclesiology, and Ecumenism Watch the Recording Dr. Cole Jodon Please join the International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section for a virtual event focusing on the ecumenical theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The event will feature a presentation by Dr. Cole Jodon on his recent monograph, Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical [...]
Book Announcement: Appointments with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Personal Faith & Public Responsibility in a Fragmenting World (by Keith Clements)
A New Book by Rev. Dr. Keith Clements, former General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches, August 2022 Published by T&T Clark, 2022 Keith Clements sets out how and why Dietrich Bonhoeffer, more than 75 years after his execution by the Nazis, still speaks cogently to both the churches and society. Beginning with the [...]
Ph.D. Announcement: Congratulations to Rev. Dr. Claire Hein Blanton
Dissertation: Rev. Dr. Claire Hein Blanton “Between Resistance and Submission: Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Christian Witness as Political Theology” Congratulations to Rev. Dr. Claire Hein Blanton who received her Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen this second week of July 2022. Her thesis was written under the supervision of Dr. Philip Ziegler and Dr. Michael Mawson. [...]