Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
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978-1-9787-0933-1 • Hardback • February 2020 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-9787-0935-5 • Paperback • November 2022 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-9787-0934-8 • eBook • February 2020 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Peter Hooton works for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on Charles Sturt University’s Canberra campus.
Chapter 1 “We are approaching a completely religionless age”
Chapter 2 Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Religion
Chapter 3 Religionless Christianity in its Christological Context
Chapter 4 Non-religious Interpretation
Chapter 5 Mystery, Faith, and Wholeness
Chapter 6 Christ without religion
Peter Hooton’s excellent book constitutes a significant contribution to the growing corpus of Bonhoeffer scholarship. It forensically probes the central notion of “religionless Christianity”— forensic in the sense of leaving no stone unturned but also in its search for answers, especially to the big questions, ‘What is left once Christianity is unburdened by religion?’ ‘What is left for the believer?’ ‘What is left for the world come of age?’ Finding answers to these Bonhoeffer-implied questions seems more urgent today than ever. Peter Hooton’s work takes us just a little closer.— Terence Lovat, The University of Newcastle, emeritus
Bonhoeffer's plea for a 'religionless Christianity' continues to intrigue and puzzle generations of new readers. Peter Hooton argues eloquently and with academic rigor that Bonhoeffer's prison theology can only be truly understood as an aspect of his abiding and central conviction of Jesus Christ as the truth of both God and humanity.— Rev. Dr. Keith Clements
What we have in Hooton’s Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context is another helpful introduction to Bonhoeffer's theology. In emphasizing the relationship of his understanding of religion to his Christology, Hooton helps us understand how Bonhoeffer can be helpful to our current conversations about the role of Christianity in a contemporary world that is increasingly polarized.
— Political Studies
What we have in Hooton’s Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context is another helpful introduction to Bonhoeffer's theology. In emphasizing the relationship of his understanding of religion to his Christology, Hooton helps us understand how Bonhoeffer can be helpful to our current conversations about the role of Christianity in a contemporary world that is increasingly polarized.
— Robert Cornwall, author of "Called to Bless: Finding Hope by Reclaiming Our Spiritual Roots"