Thesis (B.A.)--Wheaton College, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-219).

Thesis (B.A.)--Wheaton College, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bonn, 2008. / Orignally presented as the author's thesis (Bonn) under the title: "Die Begründung der Bonner Politikwissenschaft. Karl Dietrich Bracher und das Seminar für Politische Wissenschaft 1959-1969." Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-436) and sources.

[pt] A presente dissertação intitulada: O Metodismo na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Uma abordagem teológico-pastoral a partir do pensamento eclesiológico de Dietrich Bonhoeffer foi desenvolvida estimulada pela realidade que o quadro sócio-religioso brasileiro reflete no metodismo carioca. Seu objetivo é abordar, em perspectiva pastoral, a atual situação em que o metodismo mantém sua presença na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, considerando as influências neopentecostais que recebe pela via do movimento carismático. O alcance desse objetivo é realizado através da análise do metodismo na cidade do Rio de Janeiro à luz da eclesiologia do teólogo alemão Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Em sua eclesiologia são evidenciadas três importantes dimensões: koinonia, cristocentrismo e diaconia que definem um modelo eclesial com contornos pastorais aplicáveis ao estudo pretendido. / [en] This dissertation was developed base on the reality that the Brazilian social and religion overview reflects on the Rio de Janeiro City Methodism. It objects to make a pastoral approach of current situation of the Methodism in the city of Rio de Janeiro considering the neopentecostal’s influences which are brought by the charismatic movement. This intent is done by the analysis of the Methodism in the city of Rio de Janeiro in light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiology. Three dimensions are pointed out in his ecclesiology: koinonia, Christ-centrism and diacony which define a ecclesial model with applicable pastoral aspects to the present study.

Zugl.: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2008 u.d.T.: Quadbeck, Ulrike: Die Begründung der Bonner Politikwissenschaft

Thesis advisor: Richard Kearney / What does the word of the cross mean for philosophical anthropology? That is my question in this dissertation, which undertakes a philosophical engagement with a word that is both a scandal and folly for philosophical wisdom. My task is to give a hermeneutical description of what I call the cruciform self, and to examine the significance of the cross for several key themes of philosophical anthropology. Because my focus is thematic, I engage with several interlocutors--most prominently Paul Ricoeur and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but also Luther, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, and Charles Taylor. Given the pronounced theological aspects of this project, a recurring theme is the relation between philosophy and faith, reason and revelation. The word of the cross interrogates anthropology as well as philosophy, and so I present a hermeneutics of the cruciform self as well as a distinctly cruciform philosophy. Chapter 1 outlines the hermeneutical turn in philosophical anthropology, and argues that the self is constituted in being addressed by an external word. Chapter 2 then draws on Luther's theology of the cross to sketch an ontology of justification by faith, in which the self is constituted by eschatological possibility rather than achieved actuality, and stands outside of itself with its identity in another, in promise rather than presence. Chapter 3 interprets sin and evil according to the image of incurvature--i.e., the self curved in on itself, cut off from its true relations to God, others, and itself. Chapter 4 then argues that this incurvature must be broken open by an external word. There I draw on Bonhoeffer's phenomenological christology, which identifies this word as Christ, the Counter-Logos who reverses the intentionality and interrogation of the immanent human logos. The chapters in Part II then use Bonhoeffer's account of the ultimate and the penultimate to show how the word of the cross refigures philosophical thinking about the concreteness and continuity of faith (Ch.5), human capability, agency, and ethical responsibility (Ch.6), reflexivity, self-understanding, and intentionality (Ch.7), and the tension between faith and religion (Ch.8). / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Philosophy.

Zugl : Kath. Univ. Lublin, Diss.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Eidgenoessischen Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, 1981. / Typescript. Includes English summary. "Diss. ETH Nr. 6867." eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-373).

'Sola gratia' is the core of 'spiritual childhood' for Therese of Lisieux (1873--1897) as an existential theology centered on the redemptive work of God. This theological aspect is shared both by Therese's spirituality and by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's (1906--1945) theology. This study offers for the first time a comparison between their thought, mainly with regard to the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith, analysed through the notion of kenosis and the question of otherness. The first part (chapters 1 to 3) is more philosophical. It deals with Bonhoeffer's theology in its early stage and analyses his debate with Erich Przywara (1889--1972) concerning the 'analogy of being' ('analogia entis'). The second part (chapters 4 and 5) expatiates on the proper basis for the comparison between Bonhoeffer and Therese offered by the notion of kenosis (chapter 4) and by the communicative structure of faith experience (chapter 5). This part is the pivotal one, from the first phase of Bonhoeffer's theology---his discussion with Przywara's philosophical and theological endeavour---to the second and third phases of Bonhoeffer's theology then compared to Therese's spirituality. The third part (chapters 6 to 9) deals with the kenotic structure common to Bonhoeffer and Therese, and basic for a genuine understanding of justification by faith. / Justification by faith is thus the unifying aspect of this study, whose three-parts structure reflects the evolution of Bonhoeffer's theology traditionally divided up in three different periods. This study deepens the way Bonhoeffer understands otherness and the shifted emphasis in his thinking from the subject/object scheme, through otherness as exteriority, and finally to otherness as interiority. / The many cultural and thematic differences between the Roman-Catholic nun and the Lutheran pastor are being taken into account, along with the common elements central to their thinking. The emphasis on the kenotic structure sheds light on questions never asked in theresian studies so far, e.g. the relationship between 'faith' and 'works'. Through the gratuitousness of redemption implied in justification and in sanctification as well, Therese's teaching and Bonhoeffer's theology are on the same line: the freeing of the self does imply the conformation to Christ's kenotic existence. / This study pertains to the following three major concerns: oecumenical (doctrine of justification by faith), philosophical (otherness), and spiritual (authentic self-accomplishment). This study offers a polyphonic analysis pertaining to issues christological (kenosis), theological (grace and freedom), and spiritual (maturity in faith). Thus, it shows how theological discourse can be developed in a new way mainly with regard to the anthropological foundation of spiritual experience and the relevance of it for systematic theology; this cannot be achieved without a more critical use of the philosophical argumentation in theology.