Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity” and the Evangelical Rejection of “Religion”:A Comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Stephen James Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Religionless Christianity ◽  
Vineyard Church

The following article compares Bonhoeffer’s writings on “religionless Christianity” with the opinion, common among evangelicals, that Christianity is not about “religion,” based on a study of members of the Vineyard Church in T.M. Lurhmann’s When God Talks Back. While there are important similarities between Bonhoeffer and the evangelical rejection of religion, the article argues that the two theologies part ways on a number of points, most importantly concerning the theology of suffering.

Eine komplexe Friedenstheologie und Friedensethik

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Mierzwa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
Religionless Christianity ◽  
The Relationship

Peace has to be thought of in a more complex way, which is mainly stimulated by women from civil society. Many questions can no longer be addressed in a thematically and politically isolated or delimited way; chains of action and challenges are too interwoven. So far, too little attention has been paid to the preferential option for the poor, the approach of religionless Christianity and a feminist-liberation-theological-pacifist approach. Topics that are more marginal, such as a peace-ethical approach to money and the relationship between peace and health, are also addressed. Finally, the difficult question of how far one may still cooperate with the state when one is on the trail of peace is explored.

scholarly journals Różewicz and Bonhoeffer. On the Margin of the Poem Learning to Walk by Tadeusz Różewicz

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Dakowicz
Keyword(s):  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Religionless Christianity

The departure point of the analysis presented in this article is a poem written by Tadeusz Różewicz learning to walk (nauka chodzenia). The protagonist of the poem is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who created the theory of “religionless Christianity”. According to Bonhoeffer, a modern Christian has to immerse himself/herself in the “godless” world so that – in tandem with the Saviour – he/she can be experience the final abandonment. The author of this article tries to prove that the theology of Bonhoeffer had a great impact on Różewicz, making him reconsider his viewpoint on faith. Due to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the poet also found a solution for a basic contradiction that was explicated in the famous poem entitled Bez (Without): “life without god is possible / life without god is impossible”.

scholarly journals Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity”: Secular and Divine

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
A. Nyrkov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Religionless Christianity ◽  
Destructive Factor

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity” brought its author a scandal- ous reputation. Bonhoeffer’s name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements. One of the most famous his ecclesiasti- cal and social insights associated with the “religionless Christianity” project, the principal features of which are discussed in the article. The main conclusion is that the “religionless Christianity” project, conceived by the author for the extensive missionary purpose is ultimately proving to be self-destructive factor. This article is the continuation of “Religion and the Human in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Religion- less Christianity” [Нырков 2014].

Religionless Christianity

1971 ◽  
Vol XXXIX (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL G. JUNG ◽  
Stephen Benko
Keyword(s):  
Religionless Christianity
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