Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a Theology of the Exception (T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
	The Exception in Moral and Political Theology
	Is It Appropriate to Speak of the Exception in Bonhoeffer?
	History and the Exception
	Outline of the Book
Chapter 1: Bonhoeffer and the Exception in Contemporary Theology
	Reading Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought for Today
	Tyrannicide and the Question of Continuity
	Lutheran and Anabaptist Readings of Bonhoeffer’s Resistance Thought
	The Free Venture of a Responsible Individual or a Fanatic
	Conclusion
Chapter 2: Reading Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought: Hermeneutical Questions
	Reading Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought
	The Fragmentariness of Bonhoeffer’s Life
	The Fragmentariness of Bonhoeffer’s Thought
	A Hermeneutic for Reading the Exception in Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought
Chapter 3: Bonhoeffer on History and the Moment
	Bonhoeffer’s Early Account of History and the Moment
	The Undoing of History and Ethics in Revelation
	Divine Voluntarism and Creation in the Exception
	The Moment of Temptation
	Coda: The Relation of History to Political Orders in Bonhoeffer
Chapter 4: Reading the Exception in “History and Good [2]”
	Responsible Action in the Exception
	The Logic and Tension of Necessitá
	Distancing from Necessitá
	Emphasizing History in “History and Good [2]”
	Narrating the Exception in “History and Good [2]”
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Politics of Extraordinary Freedom
	The Annihilation of Freedom in Totalitarianism
	Adventitious Liberation and Undetermined Political Freedom
	Undetermined Freedom Is Not Arbitrary
	The Conspiracy as Repentance
Chapter 6: The Dismantling, Reconciliation, and Future of the Law
	The Beginning, the Law, and the Moment of Exception
	Reconciliation in the Borderline Case
	Imagining Politics after the Exception
Conclusion
	Responding to Hermeneutic Questions in the Discourse on the Exception
	Can One Speak of the Exception in Bonhoeffer?
Bibliography
INDEX