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Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology

Encounters with the Unknown Christ
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In the last years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began work on an idea that he called unbewusstes Christentum, 'unconscious Christianity'. While Bonhoeffer's other ideas from this period have been extensively studied and are important in the field of theology and beyond, this idea has been almost completely ignored. For the first time in Bonhoeffer scholarship, Eleanor McLaughlin provides a definition of unconscious Christianity, based on a close reading and analysis of the texts in which Bonhoeffer mentioned the term. From a variety of surviving texts, from a scribbled marginal note in his Ethics manuscript to the fiction he wrote in prison, she constructs a detailed definition of this term which sheds light on not only Bonhoeffer's late work, but his theological development as a whole.
Introduction Part 1: Constructing a Definition of Unconscious Christianity Chapter 1: Bonhoeffer as a Member of the Burgertum Chapter 2: Unconscious Christianity in Four Texts Chapter 3: Defining Unconscious Christianity Part 2: Situating Unconscious Christianity within Bonhoeffer's Theology Chapter 4: Unconscious Christianity in Context: Within Bonhoeffer's Late Theology and Secondary Literature Chapter 5: Unconscious Christianity as a Shift within Bonhoeffer's Theology Conclusion: The Impact of Unconscious Christianity on Bonhoeffer Studies and Contemporary Theology
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