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<span>This book highlights the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work informs political theology and examines Bonhoeffer's contributions in three ways: historical-critical interpretation, critical-constructive engagement, and constructive-practical application.</span>

<span>Acknowledgments: Lori Brandt Hale and W. David Hall</span>
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<span>Introduction: Victoria J. Barnett</span>
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<span>Section 1: Historical-Critical Interpretation</span>
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<span>Chapter 1: Michael P. DeJonge, “The Church as an Agent of Resistance in Bonhoeffer’s Political Theology.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 2: Jens Zimmerman, “Recovering the Natural for Politics: Bonhoeffer and the Natural Law Tradition.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 3: W. David Hall, “Political Meditations in Confessional Keys: The Political Theologies of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 4: Robert Vosloo, “Bonhoeffer, the Discourses on Status Confessionis in Apartheid South Africa, and Confessing the Faith Anew.”</span>
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<span>Section 2: Critical-Constructive Engagement</span>
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<span>Chapter 5: Jennifer M. McBride and Thomas Fabisiak, “Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Morality: A Theological Resource for Dismantling Mass Incarceration.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 6: Lori Brandt Hale, “The Interfaith Imperative: How Bonhoeffer Compels Interfaith Action.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 7: Lisa E. Dahill, “Self and Shadow: Bonhoeffer, Social Location, and Gender as Genre.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 8: Dianne P. Rayson, “Bonhoeffer in the Anthropocene: Ecoethics and Earthly Christianity.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 9: Karen V. Guth, “‘Heritage Not Hate’ or ‘Heritage and Decay’?: Lessons for White Christians from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Confederate Monuments Debate.”</span>
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<span>Section 3: Constructive-Practical Application</span>
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<span>Chapter 10: John W. Matthews, “The Deed is an Important Medium of Christ’s Reconciling Presence.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 11: Paul Lutter, “Between Sundays: What the Church is For.”</span>
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<span>Chapter 12: Jeffrey C. Pugh, “Bonhoeffer in Charlottesville.”</span>
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<span>Index</span>
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<span>About the Contributors</span>

<span>Lori Brandt Hale</span>
<span> is professor and chair of religion at Augsburg University and co-author of </span>
<span>Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians.</span>
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<span>W. David Hall</span>
<span> is W. George Matton professor of religion and philosophy at Centre College and author of </span>
<span>Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative: The Creative Tension Between Love and Justice</span>
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