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 [...]
Becoming Simple and Wise
Becoming Simple and Wise: Moral Discernment in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Vision of Christian Ethics. Joshua A. Kaiser. Eugene OR: Pickwick Pub , 2015. ISBN: 978-1-62032-741-8. $24.00 Straightforward and tightly argued, Joshua Kaiser’s Becoming Simple and Wise is a significant contribution to studies of Bonhoeffer’s ethics. In this volume he attends to the often problematic tensions in Bonhoeffer’s [...]
Aufbrücke zu neuen Ufern
Contemporary Church History Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of Heike Springhart, Aufbrücke zu neuen Ufern: Der Beitrag von Religion und Kirche für Demokratisierung und Reeducation im Westen Deutschlands nach 1945(Leipzig: Evangelisches Verlagsanstalt, 2008), 360 pages. ISBN: 9783374026128. By Victoria J. Barnett, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum The immediate aftermath of World War [...]
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Charles Marsh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2014. ISBN 978-0-26981-2 x + 515 pages. $35.00 (Kindle $14.39). This new biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer promises to please readers on a number of different levels. Marsh’s talent for storytelling comes through in his literary writing style, by which the Teutonic settings [...]
Earth-Honoring Faith and Resisting Structural Evil
Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key. Larry L. Rasmussen. New York/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-991700-6. xi + 462 pages. $45.00 -and- Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4514-6267-8. xix + 315 pages. $19.80 (E-book 978-1-4514-2639-7 $12.00) _____________________________ Ed. Note: This review article [...]
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Creation and Ecotheology