Bonhoeffer and the Voice of the Other

Tim Judson is a Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. He is also the minister of Broadway Baptist Church in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.Alison Walker is Ludlow Lead Tutor at Ripon College Cuddesdon, UK. Anthony G. Reddie is Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford, UK.

This is an important collection of essays offering a critical reappraisal of Bonhoeffer’s work by scholars from around the world. Reading his 'for others' motif from a variety of global perspectives, the contributors assess both the power and the limits of Bonhoeffer’s concern for suffering, attending to the formative role of his own social location, including racialized whiteness. In moving beyond inherited heroic and white-savior framings, this volume advances a rigorous and generative conversation about Bonhoeffer’s legacy today.

• IntroductionChristological Confrontation: Why Christ “for others” must be Christ “for everyone” (Tim Judson, Regent’s Park, Oxford)Part I: The Challenge of Bonhoeffer1. Bonhoeffer and Communication: The Redemptive and Reconciling Power of Struggle (Matthew Kirkpatrick, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, UK)2. Contextualising a Theologian: Situating Bonhoeffer in Time and Place (Eleanor McLaughlin Ripon College, Cuddesdon, UK)3. Views from Below: An Assessment of Bonhoeffer’s Horizon's Regarding Suffering (Christopher Whyte, University of St Andrews, UK)4. A Long-Lost Letter for Twenty-First-Century Mission: Telling, Teaching, Transforming and Treasuring in Bonhoeffer's Legacy (Craig Gardiner, Cardiff University and South Wales Baptist College, UK)5. The Problem of Christianity's Failure in Nazi Germany (Reggie L. Williams, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, USA)Part II: The Voice of the Other6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, James Cone and Black America (Josiah Ulysses Young, Wesley theological seminary Washington D.C., USA)7. The Beauty of Icons: Redeeming our Gaze of One Another (Alison Walker, Cuddesdon Gloucester & Hereford, UK)8. Bonhoeffer's Encounter with the Limits of Existence: A Biological Approach to His Suffering (Samuel Murillo Torres, University of Aberdeen, UK)9. The Importance of Bonhoeffer to Postcolonial Contexts and Public Theology, particularly in a Brazilian, Latin American Context (Carlos Caldas, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas, Brazil)Part III: The World of Struggle10. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology in Response to Far-Right Protestantism in South Korea (Sunkyo Park, University of Manchester, UK)11. Chinese Dissidents' Reading of Bonhoeffer in a World Come of Age (Jason Lam, Melbourne School of Theology, Australian University of Theology, Australia)12. Preaching as Resistance: Conformation to Christ in Bonhoeffer’s Homiletics (Lea Weber, University of Tübingen, Germany) 13. Sermons, Scripture and Struggling with Christ: Bonhoeffer and the Task of Preaching in Northern Ireland (Chris Wilson, University of Aberdeen, UK)ConclusionCross-Examining Bonhoeffer: Appraising the Life and Legacy of a Faithful Yet Fallible Saint (Anthony G. Reddie, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, UK)