Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand: A Life Reconsidered

by Charles Marsh

Publisher:

Cascade Books

, 2023

Charles Marsh responds to criticisms of his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by exploring the largely unexamined relationship between theology and biography. In Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand, he argues that Bonhoeffer scholarship desperately needs the revitalizing energies of the theologian's life story revisited and uncensored by the guild.

Praise for Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand

“Charles Marsh’s latest book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ongoing, nothing-if-not-spirited debates over the life and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Readers will find in these pages so much more, including the kind of searching, stirring reflections on the meaning of history and biography that we have come to expect from one of our era’s most brilliant theological minds.”

—Heath W. Carter, Princeton Theological Seminary



“Bonhoeffer warned against being infatuated with a self-made idea about Christian community but not loving the actual community as it is: gritty and human, complex and wondrous. What a turn then—now we need Marsh to offer the same warnings about how we read Bonhoeffer himself. We like our saints to fit tidy boxes and rubber-stamp our presumptions. Marsh, with his historian’s eye and novelist’s pen, won’t let us make this mistake.”

—Winn Collier, Western Theological Seminary



“Charles Marsh offers deep insights about the relationship between theology and biography, and he makes an eloquent, compelling case for reinterpreting Bonhoeffer’s extraordinary life. And as he confronts his fiercest critic, Marsh lifts the lid on the territorial passions simmering beneath a scholar’s patient labors.”

—Clare Carlisle, King’s College London

Product Details

• Title: Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand: A Life Reconsidered
• Author: Charles Marsh
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666722925, 9781666722918, 166672291X, 9781666730890, 1666730890, 1666722928
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666722925
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-05T10:53:40Z

About Charles Marsh

Charles Marsh (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is director of the Project on Lived Theology and professor of religious and theological studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including God's Long Summer, The Last Days and The Beloved Community.