There were many answers given on the subject of religionless Christianity in the past. In explaining what religionless Christianity might have meant, most interpreters tend to ignore the methodological problem that Bonhoeffer neither gives a definition of religion in any of his writings nor does he establish what is called a theory of religion. Dietrich Bonhoeffer himself aims to overcome religion, and the phenomena that associated with this term. He aims at "life" not at "religion". His intention is in relate Jesus Christ to "life that has come of age". Thus the problem of religionless Christianity must no longer be discussed in the framework of the "Dialektische Theologie" but against the background of the "Lebensphilosophie" of the late 19th and early 20th century (Ortega y Gasset, Wilhelm Dilthey) which highly influenced Bonhoeffer's view of life in 1944.

Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2006/2 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (2006)

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Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung

Personen: Wüstenberg, Ralf K.

Schlagwörter: Religion Interpretation Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Religionsbegriff