Who Am I? This page intentionally left blank Who Am I? (cid:1) ff Bonhoe er’s Theology through His Poetry Edited by Bernd Wannenwetsch Published by T&T Clark A Continuum imprint TheTowerBuilding,11York Road, 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Copyright © Bernd Wannenwetsch and contributors, 2009 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group ISBN-10:HB:0–567–03222–1 ISBN-13:HB:978–0–567–03222–5 Contents (cid:1) Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations viii Contributors xi 1. Introduction: Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Us Today? 1 Bernd Wannenwetsch 2. ‘Who Am I?’: Human Identity and the Spiritual Disciplines in the Witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer 11 Michael Northcott 3. ‘Past’: Bonhoeffer’s‘Past’ 31 Oliver O’Donovan 4. ‘Success and Failure’: Public Disasters, Works of Love, and the Inwardness of Faithfulness 47 Brian Brock 5. ‘By Powers of Good’: Bonhoeffer’s Last Poem: Texts and Contexts 71 Nancy Lukens and Renate Bethge 6. ‘The Friend’: Reflections on Friendship and Freedom 91 Stanley Hauerwas 7. ‘Voices in the Night’: Human Solidarity and Eschatological Hope 115 Philip G. Ziegler vi Contents 8. ‘Stations on the Way to Freedom’: The Presence of God – The Freedom of Disciples 147 Hans G. Ulrich 9. ‘Christians and Pagans’: Towards a Trans-Religious Second Naïveté or How to Be a Christological Creature 175 Bernd Wannenwetsch 10. ‘Jonah’: Guilt and Promise 197 Stephen Plant 11. ‘The Death of Moses’: Why Moses? 213 Craig J. Slane Bibliography 243 Index of Biblical References 251 Subject Index 253 Name Index 257 Acknowledgements (cid:1) Translations taken from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poetry are from — Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 8 (ed. John W. de Gruchy; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, in preparation); copy- right © Fortress Press. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress Publishers. — Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Eberhard Bethge; London: SCM Press, enlarged edn, 1971); copyright © SCM Press and Simon & Schuster Press. Used by permission of SCM Press and Simon & Schuster Press. — The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ed. and trans. Edwin Robert- son; Guildford, Surrey: Eagle Press, 1998); copyright © Eagle Publishing Ltd. Used by permission of Eagle Publishing Ltd. — Widerstand und Ergebung (eds Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge, with Ilse Tödt; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlags- haus, 1998); copyright © Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus. Used by permission of Gütersloher Verlagshaus. Other quotations from Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Eberhard Bethge; London: SCM Press, enlarged edn, 1971); copyright © SCM Press and Simon & Schuster Press. Used by permission of SCM Press and Simon & Schuster Press. Abbreviations (cid:1) Primary Sources DBWE1 Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church (ed. Clifford J. Green; trans. Reinhard Krauss and Nancy Lukens; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998). DBWE2 Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic Theology (ed. Wayne Whitson Floyd Jr.; trans. Martin Rumscheidt; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996). DBWE3 Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1–3 (ed. John de Gruchy; trans. Douglas Stephen Bax; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996). DBWE4 Discipleship (eds Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey; trans. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001). DBW5 Gemeinsames Leben. Das Gebetbuch der Bibel (eds Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Albrecht Schönherr; Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1987). DBWE5 Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (ed. Geffrey B. Kelly; trans. Daniel W. Bloesch and James H. Burtness; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996). DBW6 Ethik (eds Ilse Tödt, Heinz Eduard Tödt, Ernst Feil, and Clifford Green; Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1992; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2nd ed, 1998). DBWE6 Ethics (ed. Clifford J. Green; trans. Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West and Douglas W. Scott; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005). DBWE7 Fiction from Tegel Prison (ed. Clifford J. Green; trans. Nancy Lukens; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000). DBW8 Widerstand und Ergebung (eds Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge and Renate Bethge, with Ilse Tödt; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998). Abbreviations ix DBWE8 Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. John de Gruchy; trans. Isabel Best, Lisa Dahill, Reinhard Krauss and Nancy Lukens; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009). DBW9 Jugend und Studium 1918–1927 (ed. Hans Pfeifer with Clifford Green and Carl-Jürgen Kaltenborn; Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1986). DBWE9 The Young Bonhoeffer: 1918–1927 (eds Paul Matheny, Clifford J. Green and Marshall Johnson; trans. Mary Nebelsick, with the assistance of Douglas W. Scott; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001). DBW10 Barcelona, Berlin, Amerika 1928–1931 (eds Reinhard Staats and Hans-Christoph von Hase, with Holger Roggelin and Matthias Wünsche; Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1991). DBWE13 London 1933–1935 (ed. Keith Clements; trans. Isabel Best and Douglas W. Scott; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007). DBW14 Illegale Theologenausbildung: Finkenwalde 1935–1937 (eds Otto Dudzus and Jürgen Henkys with Sabine Bobert- Stützel, Dirk Schulz and Ilse Tödt; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/ Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1996). DBW15 Illegale Theologenausbildung: Sammelvikariate 1937–1940 (ed. Dirk Schulz; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998). DBWE16 Conspiracy and Imprisonment 1940–1945 (ed. Mark Brocker; trans. Lisa Dahill; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006). DBW17 Register und Ergänzungen (eds Herbert Anzinger and Hans Pfeiffer; Gütersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlags- haus, 1999). CD The Cost of Discipleship (London: SCM Press, revised and unabridged edition, 1959). GG Von guten Mächten: Gebete und Gedichte (ed. J.C. Hampe; Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1976). LLC92 Love Letters from Cell 92: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maria von Wedemeyer, 1943–1945 (eds Ruth-Alice von Bismarck and Ulrich Kabitz; trans. John Brownjohn; London: HarperCollins, 1994). LPP Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Eberhard Bethge; London: SCM Press, enlarged edn, 1971). MW Meditating on the Word (trans. and ed. David McI. Gracie; Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1986).