Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic TheologyThe fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor. |
Contents
The Problem | 25 |
A The Problem of Act and Being Portrayed | 33 |
B The Problem of Act and Being in the Interpretation | 81 |
The Interpretation of Revelation | 103 |
b The Mode of Being of Revelation | 110 |
c The Mode of Being of Human Beings | 116 |
d The Question of Knowledge | 123 |
The Problem of Act and Being in the Concrete | 136 |
Conscience and Temptation | 147 |
The Conscience | 155 |
Editors Afterword to the German Edition | 162 |
Chronology | 184 |
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Editor and Translator | 239 |
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