Contents:
Introduction: “Are We Still of Any Use?” / John de Gruchy
Christianity in a World Come of Age
 Dear Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Letter / Chung Hyun Kyung
 “Who Is Jesus Christ, for Us, Today?” / Peter Selby
 The Nonreligious Scientist and the Confessing Theologian: The Influence of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer on His Younger Brother Dietrich / Eberhard Bethge
 “Religionless Christianity”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Tegel Theology / Ralf K. Wustenberg
 “The Wound of History”: Reading Bonhoeffer after Christendom / Barry Harvey
 “Waiting for the Word”: The Churches’ Embarrassment in Speaking about God / Frits de Lange
 God and World: The Possibility of the New / James Cochrane
Responsible Freedom
 Ethics for the Renewal of Life: A Reconstruction of Its Concept / Hans Pfeifer
 “Who Stands Fast?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Thomas Merton on Obedience / William D. Apel
 The Enemy and Righteous Action: A Hermeneutical Reassessment / Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten
 The Priority of the Other: Ethics in Africa: Perspectives from Bonhoeffer and Levinas / Elias Bongmba
 The Ethics of Responsibility: Human Rights in South Africa / N. Barney Pityana
Political Witness and the Oikoumene
 Caesar, Sovereignty, and Bonhoeffer / Jean Bethke Elshtain
 Church versus State: Human Rights, the Church, and the Jewish Question (1933) / Alejandro Zorzin
 Sharing the Destiny of His People / Andreas Pangritz
 Bonhoeffer’s Reception in East Germany / John A. Moses
 The Idolatrous Enchainment of Church and State: Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Freedom in the United States / Geffrey B. Kelly
 Bonhoeffer and the Ecumenical Movement / Komrad Raiser
 Dialogue with the Orthodox World: A Further Journey for Bonhoeffer / Keith Clements
 Bonhoeffer, Apartheid, and Beyond: The Reception of Bonhoeffer in South Africa / John W. de Gruchy
 Afterword: Is Bonhoeffer Still of Any Use in South Africa? / H. Russel Botman

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers Presented at the Seventh International Bonhoeffer Congress (Cape Town, 1996)