Geffrey B. Kelly

Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age

Theology

Foreword

“Matthew Kirkpatrick's comprehensive study of the amazing spiritual connectedness of these two giants in religious literature stands out as one of the most important contributions to Bonhoeffer scholarship to appear in recent years … Kirkpatrick's book is the most comprehensive study of these two inspirational writers, offering a comprehensive analysis of their authorships, and demonstrating the profound influence Kierkegaard could exert on the hero of German resistance. Matthew Kirkpatrick has achieved an original and substantial contribution not only to scholarship on the writings of these two seminal thinkers but also to the history of Christian thought in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”

Back to the Future of the Roman Catholic Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theology

“This book is like an artistic mosaic in which the chapters are brought together to create a beautifully interconnected whole. Larry Rasmussen has succeeded in piecing together all the various aspects of Bonhoeffer's religious thought as it pertains to society, church renewal, and the new paths opened up for theology and ethics. The result is an illuminating study of Bonhoeffer's theology in the context of issues that are of special interest to North Americans.”

Pacifism, Just War, and Tyrannicide

Theology

“This combative book . . . offers a direct challenge to the wider world of Bonhoeffer scholarship. . . . Gides argues strongly against what he claims is an uncritical use by Bonhoeffer scholars of memorable quotations out of their original context to establish a questionable continuity in his church-world theology. Gides highlights . . . discontinuities he perceives between an earlier immersion in a two-sphered reality and Bonhoeffer's later affirmation of the reconciled reality of God's incarnate interventions in the human world. . . . Bonhoeffer's ethical consistency, rather than a developmental continuity, conferred validity to his exemplary achievements.”

Performing the Faith

Theology

“Stan Hauerwas has done it again! He is able skillfully to blend into his book the passion for truth and justice of two of his greatest influences, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Howard Yoder. He takes these heroic advocates for peace into his own present-day struggle for the soul of the American nation. Hauerwas, an admirable Christian pacifist himself, dares Christians to be the 'Jesus people' they claim to be and to follow Jesus into the gospel path of nonviolence.”

Poetry, Providence, and Patriotism

Theology

“This is a book that brings the reader into intimate contact with the hopes and aspirations of a courageous people in their struggles for independence and their eventual post-war and post-communist-control liberation and their eventual taking their place in modern European and world history . . . [It] offers insights not only into the troubled history of the Polish nation but also into the ways in which the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer can impact a society seeking to be a valued partner in a new European community of nations.”

Preface to Bonhoeffer

History & Biography

“"orders of creation" into a Christocentric context as a bulwark against Nazism's ideological "order" mandated by God, the all-powerful creator.”

The Bonhoeffer Legacy

History & Biography

“Stephen Haynes has done it again! Following on his encyclopedic-like analysis of the astounding variety of interpretations that went into creating 'the Bonhoeffer phenomenon,' Haynes now trains his theological and investigative talents on one of the thorniest problems in Bonhoeffer interpretation: his stereotypical but offensive-to-Jews statements on Judaism, his stance on the anti-Jewish legislation in Nazi Germany, and his place in postwar Holocaust studies. Haynes is meticulous in his critical scrutiny of the relevant texts as he exposes the various ways in which Bonhoeffer's writings on the Nazi persecution of Jews deserve both plaudits and criticism. Was Bonhoeffer a prime, couirageous defender of Jews in Nazi Germany? Or was he, as one critic avers, merely the best of a bad lot? Haynes does Bonhoeffer research a great service as he exposes Bonhoeffer's theology on these issues in their proper context and in his exact words with all their significance for the present-day Jewish-Christian dialogue.”

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theology

“The reissue of Godsey's ground-breaking Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a doctoral dissertation directed by none other than Karl Barth, illuminates how Bonhoeffer's forceful Christocentrism was a foundation and unifying principle of his thought throughout his life and well into his prison letters.”

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Feil's systematic, penetrating analysis and ordering of Bonhoeffer's complete writings, seen in the general perspective of an underlying ... unity and in the particular depths which reveal that unity, is indeed awesome.”

What Would Bonhoeffer Say?

History & Biography

“Congratulations on this book. It’s a real contribution to Bonhoeffer studies.”