Liberal culture and secularity -- Intellectual honesty -- The man of liberal education -- Liberality versus liberalism -- Bonhoeffer's Menschlichkeit -- Secularization and the redefinition of nihilism -- The personalist-existentialist revolution in philosophy -- The limitations of philosophical existentialism -- Bonhoeffer's theological personalism -- Nietzsche -- The impact of Luther: Christ and conscience -- Simul justus et peccator : dialectic of radical obedience -- Bonhoeffer's Lutheran precursor : Sören Kierkegaard -- Karl Barth and the nature of theology -- Barth and Bonhoeffer -- Theological presuppositions and method -- Revelation and religion -- Bonhoeffer -- Rudolf Bultmann -- Paul Tillich -- Karl Heim -- Karl Barth -- The humanity of God in Christ -- Finitum capax infiniti -- Christ pro me -- This-worldy transcendence -- Being-there-for-others -- The dialectical reality of the church -- The Christopersonal community -- The church in a world "come of age" -- Classical theology and the spirituality in the prison writings -- Biblical hermeneutics -- Dogmatic-theological exegesis -- Historical criticism -- "Non-religious interpretation of Biblical concepts" -- The development of a Christological ethics -- Under the Third Reich -- Orders of preservation -- The recall to ultimacy -- A second look at the Penultimate -- The "religionless" Christian -- Paths in Bonhoeffer interpretation -- Divergence or dialectic? -- Conservative, radical, or liberal?. Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings