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Christus Praesens. The Ecclesiology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Between Liberalism and Nationalism

Publication at Hussite Theological Faculty |
2008

Abstract

The published theological monograph complex focuses on Bonhoeffers understanding of Christian church during two time periods of his creative activity. In the first period (1924-1933) Bonhoeffer critically discuses the liberal concept of Christian church and during the second period of (1933-1945) he has been facing to heretical teachings of German Christians (Deutsche Christen) that have been comprehended in the racial understanding of Christian church, The Arian Paragraph and in some other nationalist and anti Jewish enacts of the Nazi Government. Bonhoeffer’s theology was based on The Holy Scripture and that of young Luther at that time.