초록 열기/닫기 버튼
This article aims to examine the relationship between Bonhoeffer’s theology and Hegel’s dialectics. In particular, I claim that the theological solution to the problem of the act and being represented by Kant and Heidegger in Bonhoeffer’s early theology can be clarified through the Hegelian dialectical interpretation that has been overlooked by Bonhoeffer interpreters. Bonhoeffer considers both act and being philosophy as inadequate for understanding revelation; instead, he attempts to reconstruct the contradict relationship between the act and being orientations into a theologically acceptable dialectical concept of Christianity. Bonhoeffer found a way to interpret revelation in Hegel’s dialectic of the act and being. Collective person and church-community were presented as the result of the dialectical interpretation of the act and being, that is, faith and Christ. For Bonhoeffer, God’s revelation is manifested in the collective person of Christ, which exists as a community. In conclusion, this article demonstrates that Bonhoeffer found a way to accept the contingency and continuity of revelation within the concept of church-community by identifying God’s revelation as a collective community. This paper also argue that Bonhoeffer’s dialectical solution is intended to demonstrate that God’s revelation can be unfolded in the collective practice of the social responsibility of the church community.
