Liberating Faith (Bonhoeffer Secondary Studies)

Liberating Faith remains an effective introduction to the theology and spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After a brief biographical portrait of Bonhoeffers adult life Kelly offers a thematic overview of Bonhoeffers Christological theology with an emphasis on the sociality of Christ. Other chapters focus on the liberation of faith which is essentially Bonhoeffers theology of revelation that emerged from his own existential crisis regarding his own faith and an examination of his theology of the Church. While Kelly draws heavily on Bonhoeffers later writings like The Cost of Discipleship Ethics and especially Letters and Papers from Prison he also uses key texts spanning the entirety of Bonhoeffers career to develop the critical ideas at the heart of Bonhoeffers theology. Therefore Liberating Faith does very well to set the stage for Bonhoeffers overall theology.