A detailed examination of the academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ and distinguishing Bonhoeffer's theology from that of contemporaries Karl Barth and Karl Holl.

• 1: Between Berlin and Barth


• 2: The Problem of Act and Being


• 3: The Challenge of Barth's Theology


• 4: God is Not Subject but Person: Bonhoeffer's Alternative to Barth


• 5: The Lutheran Provenance of Bonhoeffer's Alternative


• 6: Evaluating Bonhoeffer's Alternative


• 7: Claiming the Lutheran Tradition


• 8: The Academic Roots of Bonhoeffer's Ethical Theology


• Conclusion

Michael P. DeJonge is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, where he teaches on the history of Christian theology and topics in modern religious thought. His publications include Bonhoeffer on Resistance: The Word Against the Wheel (2018), Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther (2017), and The Bonhoeffer Reader (co-edited with Clifford J. Green; 2014).