Religion, Religionlessness and Contemporary Western Culture

The Editors: Stephen Plant is Senior Tutor and Director of Studies at Wesley House in the Cambridge Theological Federation, an Affiliated Lecturer in the university of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, and a Senior Member of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He is a graduate of Birmingham and Cambridge universities and has worked in local ministry and as Europe Secretary for the Methodist Church. He writes regularly for The Times newspaper, and is the author of several books.Ralf K. Wüstenberg is Director of the Institute for Protestant Theology and Visiting Professor for Systematic Theology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a graduate of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Ph.D. 1995) and the university of Heidelberg (Habilitation 2003). In 1999 he was Research Fellow at the university of Cape Town and in 2002 the Visiting Bonhoeffer Teaching Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is author of several books.

• Contents: Jens Zimmermann: Beyond Fundamentalism and Postmodernism: Bonhoeffer’s Theology and the Crisis of Western Culture – Craig J. Slane: Existing for God in an Age of Theology’s Disestablishment: Prospects for the Christian University – Jochen Bohn: Bonhoeffer’s Religionlessness: Foundation of an as-if Theology – Ursula O’Donovan: Bonhoeffer’s «Religionless Christianity» and his «Non-religious Interpretation of Biblical Concepts» in the Light of his Concept of oikoumene – Jennifer McBride: Thinking within the Movement of Bonhoeffer’s Theology: Towards a Christological Reinterpretation of Repentance – Tom Greggs: Religionless Christianity in a Complexly Religious and Secular World: Thinking through and beyond Bonhoeffer.