Moralism and Anti-Moralism: Aspects of Bonhoeffer's Christian Ethic.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thinking about ethics and Christianity is a fascinating attempt to combine different, and often conflicting, strands in the Christian intellectual tradition. In this article, I outline his thinking, analyse the advantages and disadvantages in his approach, and relate it to deve...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 449 - 465 |
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