Ethics: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 6

The crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work, Ethics is the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey. Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this new critical edition features an insightful Introduction by Clifford Green and an Afterword from the German edition's editors.

Though caught up in the vortex of momentous forces in the Nazi period, Bonhoeffer systematically envisioned a radically Christocentric, incarnational ethic for a post-war world, purposefully recasting Christians' relation to history, politics, and public life.

This edition allows scholars, theologians, ethicists, and serious Christians to appreciate the cogency and relevance of Bonhoeffer's vision.

General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works

Abbreviations

Editor's Introduction to the English Edition, Clifford J. Green

Ethics

MANUSCRIPTS IN A RECONSTRUCTED WRITING SEQUENCE

Christ, Reality, and Good. Christ, Church, and World

Ethics as Formation

Heritage and Decay

Guilt, Justification, Renewal

Ultimate and Penultimate Things

Natural Life

Natural Life

Suum Cuique

The Right to Bodily Life

Self-Murder

Reproduction and Developing Life

The Freedom of Bodily Life

The Natural Rights of the Life of the Spirit

History and Good (1)

History and Good (2)

The Structure of Responsible Life

The Place of Responsibility

Love and Responsibility

God's Love and the Disintegration of the World

Church and World I

On the Possibility of the Church's Message to the World

The "Ethical" and the "Christian" as a Topic

The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates

The Commandment of God in the Church

Editor's Afterword to the German Edition

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