Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms
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Greggs, TomAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2009-07
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This article seeks to utilise Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity in a formative and constructive way to aid theological speech in the complexly secular and multi-faith setting of the twenty-first century. It will begin by seeking to highlight trends in unhelpful contemporary theo-politics, and to locate these in the interconnection of secular and religious forms of fundamentalism. It will then consider how a theological interpretation of Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity might assist in undermining such fundamentalisms. A further section identifies a three-fold positive benefit that Bonhoeffer’s thought offers in the contemporary situation: a distinction between God and religion; a genuine understanding of the sovereignty of God; and an inability to separate secular-religious concerns from inter-faith concerns.Citation
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 11(3), 2009, pp. 293-308Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellAdditional Links
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118491508/homeType
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This is the author's PDF preprint of an article published in International Journal of Systematic Theology© 2009. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comISSN
1468-2400ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/j.1468-2400.2009.00450.x
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