For For readers of theology and of Genesis who want a theological, not historical-critical, reading of creation and the fall; not an easy first book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
4 of 5hard
His Berlin lectures on Genesis 1-3, a theological reading of creation and the fall from the standpoint of Christ. Short but dense, and a bridge from his academic books to his biblical work.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical0 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A theological exposition of Genesis 1-3, published in 1933 from the lecture course Bonhoeffer gave at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932-33. He reads the opening chapters of the Bible not as a record to be reconstructed by historical criticism but as the church's witness to God the Creator, read from the standpoint of Christ: creation out of nothing, the human being created free for God and for the neighbour, the two trees, the serpent's question, the fall and the expulsion from the garden. The book belongs to his Berlin years as a university lecturer, alongside the Christology lectures of the following summer, and shows the move from the academic theology of Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being toward biblical exposition for the church. It was first translated into English as Creation and Fall in 1959, and a new translation appears as volume 3 of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works in English.
Creation and Fall
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For For readers of theology and of Genesis who want a theological, not historical-critical, reading of creation and the fall; not an easy first book.
Should I read this?
His Berlin lectures on Genesis 1-3, a theological reading of creation and the fall from the standpoint of Christ. Short but dense, and a bridge from his academic books to his biblical work.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A theological exposition of Genesis 1-3, published in 1933 from the lecture course Bonhoeffer gave at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932-33. He reads the opening chapters of the Bible not as a record to be reconstructed by historical criticism but as the church's witness to God the Creator, read from the standpoint of Christ: creation out of nothing, the human being created free for God and for the neighbour, the two trees, the serpent's question, the fall and the expulsion from the garden. The book belongs to his Berlin years as a university lecturer, alongside the Christology lectures of the following summer, and shows the move from the academic theology of Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being toward biblical exposition for the church. It was first translated into English as Creation and Fall in 1959, and a new translation appears as volume 3 of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works in English.
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