Tag: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Best of It: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – The Christian and the Church in and for the World (Part 3)
[Series Index] Today we conclude our review of the chapter on Dietrich Bonhoeffer in John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It.Religionless Christianity. Here Bonhoeffer is thinking of religion in the sense of trying to find timeless, universal truths in Christianity just as we might in other religions – it is an exercise in getting answers…
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Best of It: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – The Christian and the Church in and for the World (Part 1)
[Series Index] We've been discussing Making the Best of It by John Stackhouse. So far, we've revisited Richard Neibuhr's Christ and Culture typology, and we've reviewed two of the three theologians Stackhouse believes we can draw on as resources for thinking about Christian realism (i.e., C. S. Lewis and Reinhold Niebuhr.) Today we turn to…
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Making the Best of It – Introduction
[Series Index] Today we begin a lengthy dialog with, Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World, by John Stackhouse. Stackhouse reminds us of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's question, "Who is Jesus Christ, for us, today?" He reminds us that in all we do, we start with Christ. His identity and mission will constitute…