This essay explores the work of Heinz Eduard Tödt, especially in its relation to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology. As professor of social ethics at the University of Heidelberg, Tödt followed his famous predecessor Ernst Troeltsch in insisting on rational argumentation regarding value decisions, but further relied on a theology of revelation as regards the significance of Christianity. In Bonhoeffer's prison theology, Tödt found a key to a theological foundation of ethics under the conditions of modernity. Tödt described Bonhoeffer's revelation theology, which emphasizes the powerlessness of the suffering God and the maturity of humans, as an ethic of responsibility surpassing both a Lutheran natural theology and a Barthian ethics of commandment. An interpreter of Bonhoeffer's thought, Tödt also oversaw the critical edition of Bonhoeffer's works and contextualized Bonhoeffer's role in the conspiracy against Hitler.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2019/1 Zweimonatsschrift (2019)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Huber, Wolfgang

Schlagwörter: Theologie Ethik Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Essay Tödt, Heinz Eduard