The God Who Is Given: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology and Religionless Christianity

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The God Who Is Given
The God Who Is Given: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology and Religionless Christianity
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Frequently Cited Sources
Introduction
	Relating Sacraments to Religionlessness
	Why Sacramentology?
	Overview of the Argument
	Notes
Chapter 1
The God Who Is Given
	Luther’s Theology of the Sacraments
	What Does a Sacrament Do?
	The Sacramental Promise and the Self-donation of God
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2
Bonhoeffer’s Sacramental Theology
	Bonhoeffer as a Participant in the Lutheran Tradition
	Dasein: Existence and Encounter
	Querying the Adjectival: A Sacramental Theology?
	The Implications for Evangelical Worship
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3
Bonhoeffer’s Theology of the Sacraments
	Bonhoeffer’s Theology of the Sacraments
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4
Faithful Habitation of a Religious World
	The Phenomena of Religious Structures
	The Religious Disposition
	The Significance of the Distinction
	A Danger in the Distinction?
	Returning to “What Is Church?”
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5
Among the Iconoclasts
	Modernity’s Use of “Religion”: Religious Religion
	The Church in Ethics
	Razing Idols and Raising the Church Anew: Sacraments and the Tegel Correspondence
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6
Sacraments against Religion
	Bonhoeffer and the Religionless Life Then
	Evangelicals and Religionless Worship Today
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author