Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886751-7 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886751-7 (ISBN)
This innovative study brings together two areas of discourse that have not been connected before: interpretations of Barth and Bonhoeffer on one hand and narratives of modernity on the other.
Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.
Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.
Joshua Mauldin is Associate Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.
Introduction
1: Critics of Modern Politics
2: Karl Barth and the Crisis of the First World War
3: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Ethical Life of Modern Society
4: The Divine Mandates and Political Resistance
5: Karl Barth on the Rise of National Socialism
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 15 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-886751-4 / 0198867514 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-886751-7 / 9780198867517 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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