John DeGruchy

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  Daring Trusting Spirit

  $21.00

  Introduction

  1.Only A Country Boy
  Called To Be A Pastor
  A Decisive Turn
  2.Beginnings Of A Friendship
  Finkenwalde
  The House Of Brethren
  3.Entering A New World
  A Growing Intimacy
  The Collective Pastorates
  4.Sharing A Double Life
  First Steps Into Resistance
  The Gossner Mission And Military Intelligence
  5.A ‘Singular Friendship’
  Friendship, Romance And Marriage
  Letters From Prison
  6.A Soldier In Italy
  Growing Disgust
  The ‘Theological Letters’
  7.Amidst The Ruins
  Imprisonment And Escape
  Pastor To The Desolate
  8.Post-War Reconstruction
  The Future Of The Church?
  Recovering The Truth
  9.Retrieving A Legacy
  First Steps In Publishing
  Abroad And At Home
  10.Interpreting Bonhoeffer
  Giving Structure To The Task
  Going Beyond Bonhoeffer?
  11.The Rengsdorf Years
  Teacher, Traveller, Host
  The Biography
  12.The Church Struggle Revisited
  A Confessing Church In South Africa?
  Confession And Resistance
  13.Remembering The Past Rightly
  Mediator Of Resistance Memories
  Bethge, Bonhoeffer And The Holocaust
  14.A Remarkably Fulfilled Life
  Senior Colleague
  ‘Church Father’
  Faithful Friend
  Mensch

  Photographs
  Index

  Additional Info
  How did Bonhoeffer’s fame and influence happen? Much of the credit goes to Bonhoeffer’s close friendship with his student and colleague Eberhard Bethge, says theologian John de Gruchy. In this important and fascinating work, de Gruchy narrates the course of that friendship, building on interviews and newly available primary sources.

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  Church Struggle In South Africa (Anniversary)

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  Foreword

  Postscript To The Third Edition: Locating The Church Struggle In South Africa In The Wider Historiography Of The Church In South Africa
  1.Historical Origins
  2.Apartheid And The Churches
  3.The Growing Conflict
  4.Black Renaissance, Protest, And Challenge
  5.Resistance, Repression And The Transition To Democracy
  6.From Church Struggle To Church Struggles

  Appendix: Religious Affiliation In South Africa In 1996

  Additional Info
  This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting. Fully updated, John De Gruchy’s authoritative account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world’s most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and “dangerous memories” for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.

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  Creation And Fall

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  Volume 3 in a sixteen volume series offering a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer’s writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretation. Creation and Fall originated in Bonhoeffer’s lectures at University of Berlin in 1932-33 in which he called his students to focus their attention on the word of God as the word of truth in a time of turmoil.

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  Cambridge Companion To Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide an introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer’s life and work, guiding the reader along the paths of his thought. Experts set out Bonhoeffer’s political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information that is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. There is a chronology and a glossary.

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  Cambridge Companion To Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide an introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer’s life and work, guiding the reader along the paths of his thought. Experts set out Bonhoeffer’s political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information that is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. There is a chronology and a glossary.

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  Karl Rahner : Theologian Of The Graced Search For Meaning

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  The select bibliography neatly organizes the vast work by and on Rhner and the selected texts are creatively chosen, strategically beginning not with Rahner’s philosphical anthropology but with the spiritual life. Together they comprise something of a mini summa of Rahner’s contributions to the chief areas of theology.

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  Paul Tillich : Theologian Of The Boundaries

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  Paul Tillich, forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, settled in the United States. His many theological works and especially his three volume Systematic Theology have had a profound influence upon contemporary religious thought. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Tillich’s thought. It presents the essential Paul Tillich for students and the general reader.

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  Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Witness To Jesus Christ

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  Bonhoeffer’s theological brilliance, committed discipleship ecumenical insight and courageous participation in the struggle against Nazism have profoundly shaped contemporary Christian understanding and action. Although his early death at the hands of the Gestapo prevented him from providing us with a full and systematic theology, his writings are remarkably extensive and have become increasingly influential. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Bonhoeffer’s thought. It presents the essential Bonhoeffer for students and the general reader.

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  Friedrich Schleiermacher : Pioneer Of Modern Theology

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  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), a German theologian, is considered to be one of the founders of ‘liberal theology,’ with its emphasis on inner experience and the knowledge of God as mediated through history. This volume is a collection of edited texts illustrating his thought on the following themes: religion as feeling and relationship; the distinctiveness of Christianity; the nature of theology as reflection and communication; hermeneutics; God and the world; the person and work of Christ; nation, church and state; Christianity and the religions.
  An introductory article and notes by Keith Clements set Schleiermacher in his historical context, chart the development of his thought, and indicate the significance of his theology on the broader spectrum of theological thought. This volume is designed both for students of theology and for the general reader.

  About the Author:
  Keith Clements is a Baptist minister and Co-ordinating Secretary for International Affairs, Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland.

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  Reinhold Niebuhr : Theologian Of Public Life

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  Reinhold Niebuhr, the most significant North American Theologian since the 18th century, has decisively influenced the shape of Christian thought and action in the United States for much of the 20th century. Niebuhr addressed social and political issues from the perspective of “Christian Realism.” This was his blend of liberalism, shrewd social analysis, and elements within the Augustinian tradition. REINHOLD NIEBUHR: THEOLOGIAN OF PUBLIC LIFE is a collection of edited texts illustrating his thought on the following themes: Disorders of a technical civilization, Morality and power, Preachers and prophets, Augustine and Christian realism, Grace and sin, Justice and love, Nature and destiny, Theological ideas, Faith for a hazardous future, and Theological virtues. Larry Rasmussen’s introductory essay and notes on the selected texts set Niebuhr in his historical context, chart the development of his thought and indicate the significance of his theology in the development of Christian theology as a whole.

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  Bonhoeffer And South Africa

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  In this stimulating book, John W. de Gruchy points out the relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thought for the life of the church in South Africa, engaging in dialogue the theology of Bonhoeffer and the theology of South Africa. Both Bonhoeffer’s theology and his life bore witness to the need for Christians to come face to face with the pressing political and social issues of the day. Bonhoeffer believed that to bear an authentic witness to Christ in certain settings was to go against the stream; the church in South Africa, says de Gruchy, faces the challenge to be just such a “troublesome witness.” He finds in Bonhoeffer’s theology direction and liberation for the oppressed as well as for the privileged, who need to be “freed for others.” Throughout, the book demonstrates the abiding significance of Bonhoeffer’s theology, which, according to de Gruchy, derives from the fact that he was, before all else, a witness to Jesus Christ.

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