TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lange, Frits de 
AU  - Walton, Martin N. 
TI  - Waiting for the Word : : Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Speaking about God 
SN  - 97808028453200802845320
AV  - BX4827.B57  .L2613 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich. : 
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 
KW  - Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,—1906-1945.God (Christianity)—Knowableness—History of doctrines—20th century.God—Knowableness—History of doctrines—20th century
N1  - Translation of : Wachten op het verlossende woord; Silence on God? an exploration -- Bonhoeffer as conversation partner -- The speechlessness of church and theology -- A cautious way with words -- "The word that changes the world": thoughts for a day of baptism -- The crisis of upper-middle-class culture -- Reconciling and redeeming, shocking and overwhelming (the performative power of the word) -- "It is our own fault" (the pragmatic context) -- A religionless era -- A new language -- What remains unsaid: the Bonhoeffer family -- How he spoke with others -- Naturalness, tact, and simplicity (the art of conversation) -- The aversion to the "phraseological" (Karl Bonhoeffer) -- What remains unsaid (religious humanism) -- Pious chatter (experiences as a youth in church) -- Deus dixit: the profusion of the Word of God -- The depth and the weight of a word -- "It is God who must speak on Sunday morning" (the a priori of Karl Barth) -- The given word (the concentration on Christology) -- Christ as idea and as address -- The inexpressible -- A red apple, a glass of cool water: proclamation in the Church -- The poverty of the Word -- "It is Christ who is the Word" (lectures on homiletics, 1935-39) -- The "rules of language" -- Waiting for the Word (a meditative approach to the Bible) -- Out of the pulpit (lectures on spiritual care, 1935-39) -- The ears of God -- Qualified silence -- The credibility of the Church -- The aristocratic word: resistance and imprisonment -- The "declericalization" of proclamation -- "There is too much talk" (the impotence and misuse of words) -- "The inability to say a Christian word to others" (the ultimate and the penultimate)
ER  -