Abstract

CUMARU, Luís. A new ethics for a new time? Rereading Bonhoeffer's 'Heritage and Decay'. STJ [online]. 2023, vol.9, n.4, pp.143-178. ISSN 2413-9467.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2023.v9n4.a10.

According to Bonhoeffer, responsibility is a global response of the human being to all reality as a whole. In the fragments of his posthumous Ethics, themes such as discipleship, culture, politics, human rights, and others converge to the same point. In this article, I analyse the context in which these fragments were written and expose the reason why even under the most difficult circumstances, Bonhoeffer thought and lived life responsibly as a whole according to what Karl Barth few years earlier called Theological Existence.

Keywords : formation (Gestaltung); civilization; West; past; future.

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