Michael Mawson is Pakeha theologian and the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

In Dietrich Bonhoeffer studies it is common to use the expression, ‘Thinking with and beyond Bonhoeffer’. This selection of essays by one of the field’s leading scholars is a study in the meaning of that phrase. The range of topics and scholars that Mawson engages here demonstrates dexterity with Bonhoeffer’s thought allows for a very rich and constructive engagement with him.

• IntroductionChapter 1Studying Theology in a Time of Crisis: Bonhoefferian Insights for Theological Thinking TodayPart I: The Forms of the WordChapter 2 'As a Whole and in its Parts': Bonhoeffer's Approach to ScriptureChapter 3: Living in the Forms of the Word: Bonhoeffer and Franz Rozenweig on the Apocalyptic Materiality of ScriptureChapter 4 The Weakness of the Word and the Reality of God: Bonhoeffer's Grammar of Worldly LivingChapter 5 Lutheran or Lutherish? Engaging Michael DeJonge on Bonhoeffer's Reception of LutherPart II: The Vulnerabilities of Bodily LifeChapter 6 Creatures Coram Deo: Bonhoeffer, Disability and Theological AnthropologyChapter 7Encountering Grace After the Fall: Bonhoeffer’s 'Natural Life' as a Response to Gerald McKenny on BiotechnologyChapter 8 Should We Live Forever? Reflections on Life Extension Technologies with Bonhoeffer and Karl BarthPart III: The Politics of the Cross Chapter 9 'Only Suffering God can Help': Bonhoeffer and Jürgen Moltmann on Divine PassibilityChapter 10 The Spirit and the Community: Pneumatology and Ecclesiology in Robert Jenson, Reinhard Hütter and BonhoefferChapter 11 The Politics of Jesus and the Ethics of Christ: On Why Bonhoeffer is not an AnabaptistChapter 12 The Stumbling Block and the Lynching Tree: Reading Bonhoeffer's 'Lectures on Christology' with James ConeBibliography Index