John W. de Gruchy

After a lifetime of “conversation” with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John de Gruchy describes how and why he began his engagement with Bonhoeffer during the church struggle against apartheid. He brings the conversation to a conclusion by examining the significance of Bonhoeffer’s prison reflections on aesthetic existence in the life of the church today, and the importance of Bonhoeffer’s thoughts on Christian humanism and on science and technology for helping the church respond to the challenge of artificial intelligence.

My Conversation with Bonhoeffer from Beginning to End

Going Against the Stream

This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). The book shows why Bonhoeffer remains such an attractive figure to so many people of diverse backgrounds. Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide a helpful introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer's life, work and writing and so guide the reader along the complex paths of his thought. Experts set out comprehensively Bonhoeffer's political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information which is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. Major themes arising from the theology, and different interpretations to it, lead the reader into a dialogue with this most influential of thinkers who remains both fascinating and challenging. There is a chronology, a glossary and an index.

The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer

De Gruchy, John Wesley De Gruchy

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationship between the arts and Christianity.

Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice

Christianity, Art and Transformation

Ashley John Moyse

The title of this book comes from Matthew‘s gospel: "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet." (24:6-8). This locates The End Is Not Yet within popular religious rhetoric about the "end time" and more sophisticated theological discourse on eschatology or Christian hope for a better world premised on faith in God. But is such faith still justified? And if so, how are we to describe and embody it in the life of the world?

John W. de Gruchy

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