Bearing Sin as Church Community: Bonhoeffer’s Hamartiology

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Hyun Joo Kim claims that Bonhoeffer transforms and reconstructs the Augustinian doctrine of original sin by shifting the hamartiological premise from the doctrine of God to the doctrine of the church based on his Lutheran resources. In Bonhoeffer’s view, Augustine’s doctrine of original sin does not fully relate the doctrine of sin to the responsibility of the saints. In order to reform Augustinian hamartiology, Bonhoeffer appropriates Augustine’s notion of the church as the whole Christ (totus Christus), which is located in Augustine’s ecclesiology. Kim explicates how Augustine relates his epistemological premises in his Christianized Platonism to his formulation of the doctrine of original sin, and examines how Luther’s Christocentric standpoint transforms Augustine’s anthropology and ultimately leads Luther to his relational hamartiology. Kim contends that Bonhoeffer’s later hamartiology and ethics contain the most distinctive characteristics of Bonhoeffer’s doctrine of sin, in that he not only incorporates both the active and passive dimensions of sin, but also intensifies his continuing notion of “vicarious representative action” towards the church community. Cover Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Thesis of the Book Chapter Summaries Contribution to Knowledge Limitations and Challenges Chapter
1 Augustine of Hippo’s Doctrine of Original Sin Introduction Early Hamartiology: The Premise of the Doctrine of Original Sin Later Hamartiology: The Doctrine of Original Sin Conclusion Chapter
2 Martin Luther’s Christocentric Hamartiology Introduction Early Anthropological Turn The Trajectory of Sin The Bound Will and Freedom in Christ Conclusion Chapter
3 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ecclesiocentric Hamartiology in Sanctorum Communio Introduction Bonhoeffer’s Assessment of the Doctrine of Original Sin Christian Personalism The Primal State of Humanity The Dual Structure of Sin Reformulation of the Doctrine of Original Sin Conclusion Chapter 4 Bonhoeffer’s Exegesis of the Creation and the Fall Introduction Theological Turning Point The Beginning The Creation The Fall Conclusion Chapter 5 Bonhoeffer’s Later Hamartiology and Ethics Introduction The Twofold Structure of Sin God’s Humanization in Christ Christian Freedom Stellvertretung Conclusion Chapter 6 Conclusion: Bonhoeffer’s Hamartiological Legacy Introduction Communal
Sin The Twofold Structure of Sin: Pride and Submission Sin and Responsibility: Stellvertretung Conclusion Areas for Further Study and Implications Notes Bibliography Index