Bonhoeffer and the Racialized Church

Ross E. Halbach is Adjunct Faculty in the School of Biblical & Theological Studies at Multnomah University.

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1. Words Already Spoken 1 Discerning Surprise Bonhoeffer and Theological Race Discourse in America 2 The Space of Remembering Whiteness as an Evolving Language Game Part 2. Words between Ultimate and Penultimate 3 Creation and Whiteness Bonhoeffer and Willie J. Jennings in Dialogue 4 Christology and Whiteness Bonhoeffer and J. Kameron Carter in Dialogue 5 Ecclesiology and Whiteness Bonhoeffer and Brian Bantum in Comparison Conclusion

I think Halbach's Bonhoeffer and the Racialized Church is a remarkable book. He makes an excellent contribution to existing scholarship on Bonhoeffer's pertinence to the struggle against white supremacy (as did Bonhoeffer in his way and in his own time). Halbach also provides erudite analyses of many of Bonhoeffer's works, particularly his Ethics. Further, he shows that Bonhoeffer's oeuvre is a gestalt that one cannot reduce to any one text. Each piece-- Act and Being, or Creation and Fall or Christ the Center, or Ethics --has its own space and time, but never apart from the whole of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and thought. Halbach, in addition, takes the inventive, fresh works of notable African-American theologians to address systematically one of humankind's most pernicious problems. --Josiah Ulysses Young, III "Modern Theology" ...it is a book that will repay careful engagement, especially for Christians who find themselves searching for a theological lens through which to view the quest for a church (and churches) that reflect God's purpose for humanity. --Stephen R. Haynes "Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology"