"In the Face of Barbarism" - (T&t Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer's Theology and Ethics) by Dallas Gingles & Michael Dejonge (Hardcover)

About the Book

Demonstrates and interrogates Bonhoeffer's focus on and contribution to the ethics of everyday life.

Book Synopsis

Written by a diverse and global group of scholars with expertise in Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics, this volume demonstrates and interrogates Bonhoeffer's focus on and contribution to the ethics of everyday life.

Can Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writings improve our morality in day-to-day life? Far from being exclusively relevant to exceptional circumstances, this work reveals that Bonhoeffer's moral vision focuses on everyday human flourishing. His work is highly relevant to yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Review Quotes

So much scholarly and popular attention focuses on Bonhoeffer and the extraordinary. This refreshing collection of essays retrieves Bonhoeffer's own concern for the everyday ethics of ordinary life, illuminating its centrality to his thinking. Among its other important contributions, the volume resists harmful distortions of Bonhoeffer's pastoral, theological, and ethical legacy.
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross, USA

The time is ripe for Bonhoeffer. But, as this provocative collection shows and interrogates, there are many Bonhoeffers. At once historical and constructive, these essays make a compelling case for the place of the ordinary in his theological ethics. The result is a richer portrait of Bonhoeffer's extraordinary Lutheran vision and witness.
Eric Gregory, Princeton University, USA

About the Author

Dallas Gingles is Assistant Dean of Hybrid Education, Associate Professor of Practice in Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, USA.

Michael DeJonge is the James E. Strange Endowed Chair of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, USA