The Bonhoeffer Legacy

Partly in conversation with Giorgio Agamben’s use of the notion of ‘the contemporary’, this article argues that Bonhoeffer’s understanding of temporality and movement provides insight into his ability to engage with his own times in such an exemplary way, and why his thought still holds so much potential for a theological engagement with public life.

ard a position that is itself ‘untimely’ since it challenges something of which his own culture is with good reasons quite proud of, namely its historical culture. But for Nietzsche this ‘hi