- Title
- Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity in Conversation with Islamic Scholarship
- Creator
- Lovat, Terence
- Relation
- The Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 13-31
- Relation
- https://atfpress.com/category/bonhoeffer-journal/
- Publisher
- ATF Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The article builds on earlier work that refuted a populist assertion that Bonhoeffer would be hostile to Islam on the basis that it represents to contemporary times a similar threat as Nazism was in the 1930s and 1940s. The article takes a contrary view that there are not only indications in Bonhoeffer’s corpus of a kindly view towards Islam but, moreover, elements in Bonhoeffer’s theology, especially in the notion of religionless Christianity, that might have potential to enhance our understanding of Islam, including around some of its more contentious contemporary attachments, as to be found in radical Jihadism and oppositional Islamic theologies. In doing so, the article explores scholarship that draws Bonhoeffer into conversation with key Muslim scholars of various ilk, such as Ibn Tufayl from the medieval period and Sayyid Qutb and Mohamed Talbi from more recent times. It concludes by reflecting on wider lessons to be learned from the exploration with potential to enhance our understanding of religionless Christianity, especially as Bonhoeffer might have continued to explore it today.
- Subject
- Bonhoeffer; religionless; Christianity; Islamic
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1480973
- Identifier
- uon:50605
- Identifier
- ISSN:2202-9168
- Language
- eng
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