Bonhoeffer and Christology

The key question this volume addresses is 'how does Bonhoeffer's thought help to re(dis)cover the doctrine of Christ's two natures and one person and understand and renew it in its significance for a modern post-metaphysical and secular world?'<br/> <br/>The volume takes a fresh look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology and brings it into a fruitful dialogue with current Christological debates. In a multi-perspectival pluralistic world Bonhoeffer's thinking offers a productive basis for conceptually incorporating the openness required for this task into academic theology. Bonhoeffer's theology offers a starting point for the recovery of a productive Christology that reflects the plurality of the globalized world as Bonhoeffer's Christology begins precisely with this integration into worldly reality whereby the world is understood in its plurality and polyphony. <br/><br/>In this way he characterizes his enterprise as follows: What keeps gnawing at me is the question what is Christianity or who is Christ actually for us today<i> (DBWE 8 362)</i>. Accordingly it opens itself up not only to inner-Christian discussion but also to non-Christian worldviews from which a basic ethical demand follows.<br/>