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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Though not found in his works, the phrase has often been attributed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Who is Bonhoeffer and why is that phrase so attached to him? Using a historical critical method and text analysis, this article is to present Bonhoeffer's story of discipleship and his theological reflection in his struggle against the Nazi during the Second World War. For Bonhoeffer, Hitler is anti-Christ. Therefore, for him, faith means a struggle and theology must be politically characterized. In Christ, God being human, Christians live their faith concretely in the reality of the world.

"This volume frames the question of responsibility as a problem of agency in relation to the systems and structures of globalization. According to Ricoeur responsibility is a "shattered concept" when considered too narrowly as a problem of act, agency and individual freedom. To examine this Esther Reed develops a short genealogy of modern liberal and post-liberal concepts of responsibility in order to understand better the relationship dominant modern framings of the meanings of responsibility. Reed engages with writings by major modern (Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Weber) and post-liberal (Buber, Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, Butler, Young, Critchley) theorists to illustrate the shift from an ethnic responsibility built on notions of accountability and attributions to an ethic responsibility that starts variously from the 'other'. Reed sees Dietrich Bonhoeffer as the most promising partner of this theological dialogue, as his learning of responsibility from the risen Christ present now in the (global) church is a welcome provocation to new thinking about the meaning of responsibility learned from land, distant neighbour, (global) church and the bible."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Die 12. Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Vorlesung an der Westfälischen Wilhelms- Universität Münster stand unter dem Titel "Frieden - Einsichten für das 21. Jahrhundert". Der Band dokumentiert die Vorlesungen sowie andere Beiträge der Tagung. Namhafte Referenten behandelten Aspekte des Themas in politikwissenschaftlicher, juristischer, historischer, ethischer und theologischer Perspektive. Beleuchtet wurden nicht nur der (Denk-)Weg Bonhoeffers, sondern ebenso die frühneuzeitliche Konstellation von Religion und rechtlicher Friedensordnung, die soziale Dimension eines globalen Friedens und die Wahrnehmung kirchlicher Friedensverantwortung in unterschiedlichen Kontexten. Die Vorlesungen wurden gehalten von Thomas Bremer, Wolfgang Huber, Hans-Richard Reuter, Eva Senghaas-Knobloch, Glen H. Stassen und Heinhard Steiger.