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Wie wird Gott durch das Leben einer menschlichen Gemeinde offenbart? David Robinson legt dar, dass Bonhoeffers vielseitige Verwendung von Hegels Denken nicht über seine Polemik gegen den Idealismus hinwegtäuschen sollte.

• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • A. Juxtaposing Monuments
  • B. From Disruptive Word to Revelatory Community
  • C. Ferment of the Mind: Textual Reception and its Matrices
  • D. From Theology to Philosophy – and Back Again
  • E. Beyond Revolt: A Case for ‘Eclectic’ Reception
  • F. Scholarship on Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Hegel
  • G. Chapter Outline
• Part One – Beyond the Incurvature of the Self
  • Chapter 1: From Word to Geist: Revelation Becomes the Community
    • A. Geist and the External Word
      • I. Shapes of Geist in Hegel
      • II. Bonhoeffer’s Appropriation of ‘Objective Geist’
      • III. Recovering the Word Before Geist
    • B. Revelation and Hiddenness in History
      • I. Hegel on the Unfolding of Revelation
      • II. Bonhoeffer on ‘Revelation in Hiddenness’
    • C. From ‘Self-Confinement’ to Reciprocal Confession in Hegel
      • I. Confessions of the Beautiful Soul
      • II. Knowledge of the Appearing God
    • D. Bonhoeffer’s Turn to Intercession
      • I. Confessions of the Privately Virtuous – and ‘Confessing’ Church
      • II. Constitutive Intercession and the Simultaneity of Sin
    • E. ‘Suspending’ Reflection in Act and Being?
    • F. Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: A Cleaving Mind: The Fall into Knowledge
    • A. To Break and to Bind: Relating the Two Lecturers
      • I. Biblical Evocations in Hegel’s Thought
      • II. Bonhoeffer’s Criticism of Hegel’s ‘Divine Knowledge’
    • B. Similar Depictions of the ‘Fallen’ Mind
      • I. Hegel on the Reflexive Division of Judgement
      • II. Bonhoeffer on the Presumptuous ‘Creator-Human’
    • C. Divergence over Protology
      • I. Hegel on Primal Volatility
      • II. Bonhoeffer on Original Unity
    • D. The Politics of Knowing: Supersession from Scripture to Culture
      • I. Hegel on the Primal State of Others
      • II. Bonhoeffer on ‘Our’ Urgeschichte
    • E. A ‘Sublation’ of Ethics?
    • F. Conclusion
• Part Two – The Substitution of Christ
  • Chapter 3: Disruption of the Word: Christ as Counter-Logos
    • A. Idea and Appearance: A Classification that Divides?
      • I. Hegel on the Relation of Idea and Appearance
      • II. Noli me tangere: Hegel on Christ’s Departure
      • III. Bonhoeffer’s Charge of Docetism
    • B. Hegel’s ‘Trinitarian’ Logic
      • I. The Passing of the Son’s ‘Other-Being’
      • II. ‘Geist or God’? Suspicions of Pantheism
    • C. Bonhoeffer’s Account of the Whole and Present Christ
      • I. Christology from an sich to pro nobis
      • II. Resisting Rational ‘Necessity’
    • D. Christ Against Reason?
      • I. Logos as Inception of Hegel’s Philosophy
      • II. Bonhoeffer’s Menschenlogos-Gegenlogos Dialectic
      • III. Thinking After Confrontation: Toward a Christological Logic
    • E. The ‘Christ-Reality’ and the Unities of Thought
    • F. Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: That Insistent Est: Christ as Preaching and Sacrament
    • A. Reformed-Lutheran Debates in the 1920s
      • I. Karl Barth’s Criticism of the ‘Predicate of Identity’
      • II. Franz Hildebrandt’s Defence of the Est
    • B. Christ as Doctrine, Christ as Address
      • I. Hegel on the Doctrinal Construction of Community
      • II. Bonhoeffer on the Present Address of Preaching
    • C. Christ as Sacrament
      • I. Hegel on Consciousness and Consumption
      • II. Bonhoeffer on the Eucharistic Est
    • D. Christ as Community: Outlining the Revelatory Body
    • E. Conclusion
• Part Three – The Body of Christ After ‘World History’
  • Chapter 5: From Revolution to Right? Polities of Freedom
    • A. The Sermon on the Mount as Revolutionary Teaching
      • I. Hegel on Jesus’ Sans-Culottism
      • II. Bonhoeffer on Jesus’ Unbounded Community
    • B. Similarities in Post-Revolution Criticism
      • I. Hegel on the Need for an Actualised State
      • II. Bonhoeffer on the Nihilism of Absolute Freedom
    • C. Hegel on the Cultivation of the State
      • I. Prussian State Apologist?
      • II. From Augsburg to the Merged Church
    • D. Bonhoeffer’s Retrieval of Confessional Space
      • I. Visibility for the Ecclesial Body
      • II. Weakness of the Word, Strength of the Idea
    • E. Suffering Body, Spiritless Age: The Hiddenness of Recognition
      • I. Hegel on Mutual Recognition and Religious Opposition
      • II. ‘Community of Strangers’: Bonhoeffer on Non-Recognition
    • F. Embattled Alliance: Church and Remnant State in Ethics
    • G. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Volk, Race, and the Shapes of History
    • A. From Thinking the Whole to the Racial Community
      • I. Hegel among the Neo-Hegelians?
      • II. Race-Critical Reception: The Work of W.E.B. Du Bois
    • B. State Responsibility Before the Jewish People
      • I. Hegel on Supersession and Civil Rights
      • II. Bonhoeffer on the Church’s Response to State ‘Self-Negation’
    • C. The Limits of Völkisch Thinking
      • I. Beyond Hegel’s Germany: Dark Continent, Future Land
      • II. Bonhoeffer’s Confession as Transnational Dialectic
    • D. Between Shapes of Geist and the Form of Christ
      • I. Hegel on the Cunning of Reason Through Shapes of Geist
      • II. Bonhoeffer on Divine Intent and the ‘View from Below’
    • E. Rethinking Cultural Formations After ‘World War’
    • F. Conclusion
• Conclusion
  • A. Revisiting the Humboldt Monuments
  • B. From Word to Geist: How Does the Community Reveal?
  • C. Eclectic and Christologically Intent: A Posture of Reception
  • D. ‘Luther to Idealism’: Toward Further Enquiry in the Tradition
  • E. Contributions to Contemporary Theology
  • F. Contributions to Contemporary Ethics
• Bibliography
  • A. Hegel’s Literature with Abbreviations
  • B. Bonhoeffer’s Literature with Abbreviations
  • C. Contextual and Interpretive Literature
• Indexes
  • A. Index of Names
  • B. Index of Subjects