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, [...]
Universal Health Care as a Human Right
Universal Health Care as a Human Right: The Argument of Dietrich Bonhoeffer G. Clarke Chapman, The Edward Mellen Press, 2014 Reviewed by John W. Matthews, Apple Valley, Minnesota What an interesting – and ironic – time to review a book on universal health care in the United States. In January 2017, a President was inaugurated [...]
Review of Volume 15: Theological Education Underground (1937-1940)(by Roger Revell)
DBWE Vol. 15: Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. Hardcover, 725 pages Introduction Volume 15 of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works is well worth the read. Its varied documents hail from 1937-1940. During this period, Bonhoeffer oversaw the “underground” theological education of some 67 seminarians connected with the Confessing Church. Amidst these tumultuous years, when Confessing seminaries [...]
Justice for Bishop George Bell
JUSTICE FOR BISHOP GEORGE BELL, FRIEND OF DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In October 2015 the Church of England announced that it had made a financial settlement with a claimant, known only as “Carol” to preserve anonymity, who alleged child sexual abuse against her in the late 1940s/early 1950s by George Bell, bishop of Chichester, who died in [...]
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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. [...]