Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity: Psychological Phenomenon?

Abstract

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements. One of the most famous his ecclesiastical and social insights associated with the "religionless Christianity" project, the premises of which are discussed in the article. The main conclusion is that the Divine nature is perceived by Bonhoeffer through the exclusive prism of human and this-worldly existence.

Keywords

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• religionless Christianity
• liberal Protestantism
• Adolf von Harnack
• interpersonal barrier
• this-wordly transcendence
• empirism of Revelation
• secular theology