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Discovering the Presence of Christ in the World: A Response to Wolfgang Klausnitzer [1]

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Abstract

<title> ABSTRACT </title>WalterSparn offers aresponseto Wolfgang Klausnitzer'spaperfor the sixtieth anniversary ofDietrich Bonhoeffer's death.Sparnis ingeneral agreement withKlausnitzer's interpretation.Sparn emphasises theneedtore-understand Bonhoeffer's polemicagainst 'religion'.He isalsoinagreement withKlausnitzer insituating Bonhoefferin relationto the current paradigm shiftin BiblicalStudies. Sparn elucidatesBonhoeffer's understandingof the Church as ahermeneuticalcommunity, as well as the consequences for the churchesintermsofradicalchange. Sparniscontent to endorse theunderstandingthatBonhoeffershares withIgnatius LoyolaandMartin Luther intheheritageof devotio moderna. But he challenges Klausnitzer's appeal to Rahner's transcendental 'original experience'.

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