tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post7625930944648420274..comments2023-09-23T15:05:48.320+00:00Comments on FaithInSociety: Simon Barrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05366440538616508935noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-42130361954276167732008-03-24T01:12:00.000+00:002008-03-24T01:12:00.000+00:00Bonhoeffer is particularly helpful if we read his ...Bonhoeffer is particularly helpful if we read his theology and life together and you pick up the tensions, the strains of thought and practice being never quite resolved in his life.<BR/><BR/>James McClendon in his chapter on Bonhoeffer in volume of his Systematc Theology: Ethics argues that the tragedy of Bonhoeffer was the lack of skills, practices and structures of political life in the church that were capable of Christianly resisting the emergence of totalitarianism. <BR/><BR/>the lack of these skills and practices in the church McClendon argues led Bonhoeffer back to the skills and practices of his family as the only community where he could find support and engagement.<BR/><BR/>The example of Bonhoeffer and the failure of the church in Germany provides an even strong case for the sorts of policy and politics that Simon is arguing for.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15682125015622743887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-22803631810269663672008-03-22T13:29:00.000+00:002008-03-22T13:29:00.000+00:00Oh dear, the first post is a spam. Sorry for letti...Oh dear, the first post is a spam. Sorry for letting that through. The name is similar to that of a blog by a friend. Ne'er mind.Simon Barrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05366440538616508935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-36155283818724683582008-03-22T13:26:00.000+00:002008-03-22T13:26:00.000+00:00Thanks, Peter. I'll add you to my blogroll too :)H...Thanks, Peter. I'll add you to my blogroll too :)<BR/><BR/>Hi Tom. Well, I'm not trying to canonise Bonhoeffer, and I am well aware of the fallibilities of his thinking (on Judaism, for instance). I think he's helpful because he's not a saint, or easy, rather than because he is. You are right that the incomplete and truncated nature f his thought can lead to its over-reification, but I think in Ten Years After and elsewhere he did have some open up astute theological trajectories.Simon Barrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05366440538616508935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-43946455161224106002008-03-22T12:52:00.000+00:002008-03-22T12:52:00.000+00:00Bohoeffer is the ultimate frustration because act...Bohoeffer is the ultimate frustration because actually he was never really required to offer any theological thinking: as one young German theologian said to me if the plot had succeeded, or he had survived the war then it would be interesting to speculate how he would have been regarded now. In the end there is the fundamental question about whether his current "sainthood" which is particularly prevalent in theological college circles is due to his "martyrdom".Tom Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313931084011888631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-4671937111832427152008-03-22T12:16:00.000+00:002008-03-22T12:16:00.000+00:00Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is ver...Hello. This post is likeable, and your blog is very interesting, congratulations :-). I will add in my blogroll =). If possible gives a last there on my blog, it is about the <A HREF="http://projetor-brasil.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Projetores</A>, I hope you enjoy. The address is http://projetor-brasil.blogspot.com. A hug.<A HREF="3867827118" REL="nofollow"></A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com