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Moral Action in the Midst of Havoc

其他書名	Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Divine Command
出版	Wheaton College (Ill.), 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TPohYAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The following study analyzes and compares the moral theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We shall examine the work of these two figures in the following volumes: Barth's Church Dogmatics 11/2 and Bonhoeffer's Ethics. It argues that Barth and Bonhoeffer share a number of common beliefs regarding the way in which God claims moral agents in Jesus Christ and correspondingly commands them to take up concrete actions in the world. These common features are: (1) a rejection of principle-based casuistry in favor of a christologically-grounded account of the divine command (chapter 2); (2) a description of the divine command focused on its christological unity, contextual particularity, and capacity for granting genuine freedom to its recipients (chapter 3); and, finally, (3) a derivative account of the discipline of theological ethics that emphasizes its role in preparing the moral agent in hearing the divine command by describing the moral field in terms determined by its inclusion in the history of Jesus Christ (chapter 4). We argue that Barth and Bonhoeffer finally part company in articulating how the divine command is issued, how it "becomes concrete" (chapter 5). On this question, we find that Barth offers a positive account of Scripture as a field of divine speech that elicits a corresponding human hearing, whereas Bonhoeffer turns to a moving statement of the various mandates that sacramentally order, direct, and perpetuate common human life. Finally, in offering an explanation for this divergence, we conclude that Barth and Bonhoeffer's differing perspectives on the church's failure in World War II were of vital importance to their distinctive accounts of the divine command and, as we shall demonstrate, to their personal and theological relationship more generally (chapter 6)