Chapter One: Why Bonhoeffer, Why Now? Chapter Two: Living in a World Come of Age. Chapter Three: The Eclipse of Religion: Religionless Christianity Chapter Four: As if God Did Not Exist. Chapter Five: The Suffering God Chapter Six: The Call to Resistance - How Do We Respond to Evil in Our Midst? Chapter Seven: What is Christianity for Us Today?
A contemporary interpretation of Bonhoeffer, revisiting some of the themes of his life that have found abiding significance in Christian theology.
Jeffrey C. Pugh is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. His most recent book was Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between, published by Continuum
Books on Bonhoeffer abound because Bonhoeffer's legacy continues to
attract attention, and rightly so. At this time in global history
when religion is too often part of the problem, we need to take
seriously Bonhoeffer's alternative reading of Christianity. In
"Religionless Christianity" Jeffrey Pugh offers us a
well-researched account of what Bonhoeffer had in mind, and he does
so in a way that is well-written and eminently readable.
*John W. de Gruchy, Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies,
University of Cape Town, South Africa*
With the publication of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Bonhoeffer
scholarship has fully matured; we know the details of his life and
thought, together with their genealogy and context. Across recent
decades the scholarly analysis of modernity has also achieved a
certain maturity. But it is Jeffrey Pugh, in Religionless
Christianity, who lets us think with and from Bonhoeffer about
compelling issues in our own context, shaped as it is by modernity
and post-modernity. And he does it superbly well.
*Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social
Ethics, Union Theological Seminary*
Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer for us today? It is the Bonhoeffer,
according to Pugh, that would have us look to Christ as the key to
helping us discern the world in which we live. Drawing on his
wealth of knowledge about Bonhoeffer, Pugh helps us understand how
Bonhoeffer continues to help us accurately see the powers that we
are so tempted to call "freedom." There are plenty of books on
Bonhoeffer, but this is a book that not only helps us better
understand Bonhoeffer; it also helps us better understand ourselves
in light of Bonheoffer's work. Pugh is anything but uncritical in
how he approaches Bonhoeffer, but his criticisms are but a tribute
to this remarkable man and theologian.
*Stanley M. Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe, Professor of Theological
Ethics, Duke University*
We who still ponder the meaning of Bonhoeffer for our present life
and calling are deeply indebted to Jeffrey Pugh for this remarkable
book. Pugh's compelling analyses in Religionless Christianity
enable us to encounter Bonhoeffer at that more personal level in
which his vision for the future and challenges for the present
becomes sources of inspiration and moral enrichment as we cope with
the troubling issues and problematic moments of our own lives. At
every turn in Pugh's book, we are led to appreciate Bonhoeffer's
life among the fragments of his courageous resistance to moral
degradation within his own nation.
*Geffrey B. Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology, La Salle
University, Philadelphia*
Listed in Books received, Theology, June 2009
Pugh's question for the Church today, what is 'religion' and what
is 'religionless' is one that clearly needs to be asked.
*Theological Book Review, Vol. 21, 2009*
In addition to its helpful critique, Pugh's book benefits from an
accurate and insightful analysis of Bonhoeffer's thinking.
*The Expository Times, May 2010.*
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