Abstract

Acta Theologica is the official and accredited theological journal of the Faculty of Theology of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Acta Theologica is an accredited South African journal publishing independently reviewed research articles on broad Christian-theological and religion topics, aimed at a national and international academic audience/readership. The Editorial Board accepts and considers for possible publication articles in English, written from a responsible point of view on subjects in a relevant field of study within the Christian-theology science. The opinions expressed in the articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board. Acta Theologica appears bi-annually. Occasional monographs or longer contributions are published in a concurrent series of Supplementa.

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  • The Oxford Handbook series has become one of the most authoritative sources for contemporary theology, and every new volume is received with anticipation and appreciation

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  • In Letters and papers from prison, one of the volumes in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edited by De Gruchy, Bonhoeffer asked these questions throughout his life and writings

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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY

The essays selected were all written over the past fifteen years They presuppose that Bonhoeffer’s life and writings still provide a resource for a theological engagement with the challenges of a democratic South Africa. The book is dedicated to Russel Botman and John de Gruchy The latter wrote the foreword, wherein he asks whether we – in times where we are again thinking about decolonisation – should still continue with research on Bonhoeffer in South Africa. This 528-page handbook is edited by Philip Ziegler, Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen, and Michael Mawson, author of Christ existing as community: Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiology (2018). McBride); race (Reggie Williams, author of Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem renaissance theology and an ethic of resistance [2014]); community (Barry Harvey); philosophy (Jens Zimmermann), and Bonhoeffer and South Africa (Nico Koopman)

DEPARTMENT OF OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL AND MISSIONAL THEOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION STUDIES
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