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The Incarnation and Crucifixion in Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Hamish Walker
Affiliation:
Edinburgh

Extract

The mainspring of Bonhoeffer's theology is his vision of Christ and the resulting Christology. The Cost of Discipleshipseems to me to suffer from a defective Christology. The purpose of this article is to provide evidence for this contention.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1968

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References

page 407 note 1 The Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life and Theology (The Chicago Theological Seminary Register, Vol. li, No. 2, Feb. 1961), p. 18.Google Scholar

page 408 note 1 Numbers in brackets are page numbers of the Cost of Discipleship (London: S.C.M. Press, 1959).Google Scholar

page 408 note 2 Sanctorum Communio (London: Collins, 1963), p. 106. Chapter III of this book is a very thoroughgoing exposition of Bonhoeffer's ideas on community.

page 409 note 1 My translation.

page 410 note 1 The Nature of the Church, Flew, R. N. (ed.) (London: S.C.M. Press, 1952), p. 260f.Google Scholar

page 411 note 1 See the section entitled ‘The Call to Discipleship’, passim (pp. 48ff).

page 412 note 1 My translation.

page 413 note 1 The concluding clause reads: um seine ‘Weltfremdheit’ erst ganz sichtbar werden zu lassen.

page 413 note 2 Creation and Fall (London: S.C.M. Press, 1959), p. 38.Google Scholar

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