Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms
dc.contributor.author | Greggs, Tom | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-14T13:57:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-12-14T13:57:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Systematic Theology, 11(3), 2009, pp. 293-308 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2400 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2009.00450.x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10034/87884 | |
dc.description | 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.com | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | en |
dc.relation.url | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118491508/home | en |
dc.subject | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | en |
dc.subject | religionless Christianity | en |
dc.title | Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms | en |
dc.type | Preprint | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Chester | en |
dc.identifier.journal | International Journal of Systematic Theology | en |
html.description.abstract | 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. |