Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • Magazines

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Religion and faith
  3. Religion

Read and listen for free for 30 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

Ethics

From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world.

The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Although the author died before completing his work, this book is recognized as a major contribution to Christian ethics.

The root and ground of Christian ethics, the author says, is the reality of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This reality is not manifest in the Church as distinct from the secular world; such a juxtaposition of two separate spheres, Bonhoeffer insists, is a denial of God’s having reconciled the whole world to himself in Christ. On the contrary, God’s commandment is to be found and known in the Church, the family, labor, and government. His commandment permits man to live as man before God, in a world God made, with responsibility for the institutions of that world.


Author:

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 320 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Religion and faith
  • Religion
  • Religion and faith
  • Christianity

More by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Skip the list
  1. Verzet en overgave : Brieven en aantekeningen uit de gevangenis

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  2. Ética

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  3. Navolging

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  4. Schepping en val

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  5. Aanzetten voor een ethiek

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  6. Liv i gemenskap

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  7. Mijn ziel keert zich stil tot God : meditaties bij de Psalmen

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  8. Verborgen omgang : over leven in gemeenschap

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  9. The Cost of Discipleship

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book
  10. Letters and Papers from Prison

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    book

  • 11 books

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Nextory One
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5