Introduction
1: The theological story
2: Lutheran accents
3: Political Life
4: Church and State
5: The Beginnings of Resistance
6: The Indirectly Political Word of the Church
7: The Directly Political Word of the Church
8: Extraordinary Confession
9: Resistance to the State and Mistreatment of Jews
10: The Second Battle of the Church Struggle
11: Into the Conspiracy
12: The Responsible Action of the Individual
Conclusion: Bonhoeffer s Politics and our Own
Michael P. DeJonge is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, where he teaches on the history of Christian theology and topics in modern religious thought. His previous publications include Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther (2017), Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation (2012), and The Bonhoeffer Reader (co-edited with Clifford J. Green; 2014).
DeJonge lucidly retrieves Bonhoeffer's creative engagement with
Luther as the engine of his resistance to the political and moral
degradations of the Third Reich. Summing up: Recommended
*CHOICE*
...this is an excellent and extremely important book. There is no
other book that focuses sustained attention on Bonhoeffer's
theology of resistance and his activities. Teachers, students, and
researchers of Bonhoeffer's works would do well to read this book
carefully and refer to it often.
*Nancy Duff, Retired Professor of Christian Ethics, East Windsor,
NJ, USA, Theology Today*
Michael DeJonge's Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word against the
Wheel presents the most comprehensive, clear, and compelling study
of Bonhoeffer's political theology to date.
*The Journal of Religion*
A key takeaway from this new volume is that Bonhoeffer's conception
of resistance is inescapably Lutheran. DeJonge rejects the view
that Bonhoeffer left behind his Lutheran assumptions on his way to
political resistance. Bonhoeffer's involvement in political
resistance was, on the contrary, inextricable from his Lutheran
political theology. DeJonge has made a significant contribution to
Bonhoeffer scholarship in bringing this point to light, and in such
a convincing and compelling way.
*Joshua T. Mauldin, Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New
Jersey*
DeJonge has engaged in a thorough analysis of Bonhoeffer's
resistance thinking. Those of us who work on the historical side of
the German church struggle would do well to incorporate his and
other theologians' insights into our work, to enrich our
interpretations and aid us in the cultivation of an undistorted and
unpoliticized interpretation of Bonhoeffer's life and work.
*Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University, Contemporary Church History
Quarterly*
That said, at a time when more and more people-scholars, clergy,
lay people, and activists-are looking to Dietrich Bonhoeffer for
theological and ethical guidance in matters of church and civic
responsibility, Michael DeJonge has offered an extremely important
and helpful guide for understanding what Bonhoeffer says about
resistance...I highly commend this book to both serious and casual
readers of Bonhoeffer.
*Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg University, Minneapolis, Minnesota*
DeJonge, in crisp clear prose, and with deep textual acuity, has
provided a definitive account of what "resistance" in a
Bonhoefferian key looks like.
*Myles Werntz, Reading Religion*
Michael P. DeJonge offers a nuanced and original exploration of
Bonhoeffer's "resistance thinking" in its proper political,
historical and theological context. This is a valuable work that
reveals fascinating insights into Bonhoeffer himself and his
relation to the church. It will be of deep interest to readers of
theology and history alike.
*Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia and President of Asia
Society Policy Institute*
Before Dietrich Bonhoeffer could be a pastor, martyr, prophet, or
spy he was a theologian, and without an understanding of that
theology his actions makes little sense. In Bonhoeffer on
Resistance leading Bonhoeffer scholar Michael P. deJonge gives us a
clear, accessible, and true account of Bonhoeffer's theology of
political life, in particular its relation to Martin Luther. This
is an important book which deserves to be widely read.
*Stephen Plant, Dean and Directory of Studies in Theology, Trinity
Hall, University of Cambridge*
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