- Thoughts on the decline of nominal or cultural Christianity, processed with the help of Bonhoeffer's distinction between ultimate and penultimate things.
- Thoughts on divine mandates, and the different spheres of human life, prompted by the Covid-19 crisis.
- A brief thought on ethics as obedience to God, and the implications for church fellowship.
- An exploration of two key concepts from Bonhoeffer - nature and vicarious representation.
- Thoughts on the famous contrast between cheap and costly grace,
- Learning to pray, drawing on Bonhoeffer's work on the Psalms.
- A series of posts working through Bonhoeffer's (sadly unfinished) Ethics:
- Part 1 - Christ, Reality and Good
- Part 2 - Ethics as Formation
- Part 3 - Heritage and Decay
- Part 4 - Guilt, Justification, Renewal
- Part 5 - Ultimate and Penultimate Things
- Part 6 - Natural Life
- Part 7 - History and Good (1)
- Part 8 - History and Good (2)
- Part 9 - God's Love and the Disintegration of the World
- Part 10 - Church and World I
- Part 11 - On the Possibility of the Church's Message to the World
- Part 12 - The "Ethical" and the "Christian" as a Topic
- Part 13 - The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates
- A brief application of Bonhoeffer to the question of abortion.
- Some critical thoughts on Bonhoeffer's understanding of the church. This was ten years ago, and I'm not sure now that I agree with myself!
- An appreciation of Bonhoeffer's emphasis on corporate, common prayer in the church.
- Thoughts on how the gospel addresses people who are good.
- A reflection on confession of guilt as the precursor to good ethical thinking.
There are a couple of others which I haven't linked, but which you can find if you look; they deal with my reading of Metaxas's biography of Bonhoeffer, which I liked at the time but feel more ambivalent about now.
Hi Daniel, Thanks so much for your insights into the person, work, and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It was a joy to come across your blog. Grace and peace, Dion
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