Philip G Ziegler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1430996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip G Ziegler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziegler |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEGLER P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3555-4102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sce 39
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in einer globalen Zeit / Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a Global Era
How it Ends
This short essay reflects theologically upon aspects of the enigmatic passage 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 and contends that while certainly directed at assuaging the eschatological anxieties of the Christian congregation to whom it is addressed, this passage is not, as is often suggested, uninterested in eschatological doctrine as such. Rather, I argued that it is precisely the apocalyptic vision of the victorious and eloquent epiphany of the Lord tha…
Christ’s Agony and Faith’s Wakefulness—Reflections on a Remark of Pascal
This essay reflects upon a remark of Blaise Pascal. His gloss upon the story of Christ in Gethsemane is punctuated with the arresting comment that “Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world: during that time, we must not sleep” — “Jésus sera en agonie jusqu’à las fin du monde: Il ne faut pas dormir pendant ce temps-là”. In close conversation with the work of Lev Shestov, I explore the unsettling suggestion that for Christian faith the t…
Parabolic Life
Christian ethicist Nancy Duff has suggested that an apocalyptic hearing of the gospel elicits a parabolic understanding of the Christian moral life. How might the theological basis and rationale of this claim be elaborated? What is it about human life funded by the gospel of God’s apocalypse in Jesus Christ that makes ‘parable’ an apt description of the quality of its action? And how might these notions be elaborated to enrich our understanding o…
Brief Reflections on Theological Studies at the Toronto School of Theology
"Brief Reflections on Theological Studies at the Toronto School of Theology." Toronto Journal of Theology, 37(1), p. 115
Reformed Ethics
Within the wider field of ethical reflection and moral theology, Reformed ethics is tasked with understanding and orienting human action theologically by formative reference to the fundamental description of moral reality provided by Reformed doctrine. The essential features of this moral reality can helpfully be displayed and coordinated around the themes of belonging, gratitude, law, and holiness. Consideration of these themes helps to bring ou…
The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45) and his writings. It contains sections on Bonhoeffer’s life and context, his contributions to all areas of systematic theology and ethics, constructive uses of Bonhoeffer for engaging contemporary issues, and resources for studying Bonhoeffer today. Contributors include leading Bon…
Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and his writings. It contains sections on Bonhoeffer's life and context, his contributions to all areas of systematic theology and ethics, constructive uses of Bonhoeffer for engaging contemporary issues, and resources for studying Bonhoeffer today. Contributors include leading …
Bound Over to Satan’s Tyranny”
What might be the shape of a Reformed account of sin that does justice to the soteriological necessity of conceiving of salvation as a “three agent drama” involving God, the human, and those powers inimical to God of which the Devil is a synecdoche? What role ought the figure of Satan play in contemporary hamartiology, and what is at stake in asking and answering such a question? In conversation with recent work in Pauline apocalyptic as well as …
Insomnolent Anathemas
Over several decades during the second half of the last century, the Romanian-born Parisian intellectual E. M. Cioran penned a series of uneasy works whose despondent obsession with God is matched only by their utter disavowal of the reality of the divine. Wrestling pessimistically with nihilism in a world forged by chronic insomnia, illness, nicotine, and despair, Cioran confronts the theologian with a particularly radical articulation of unbeli…
Brandon Gallaher, Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology
Peter Frick, Understanding Bonhoeffer
Joshua Furnal, Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard
Kevin W. Hector, The Theological Project of Modernism
Introduction to the Volume
This special issue of Theology Today showcases the scholarship of a new generation of theologians inquiring into, thinking with, and inspired by the theological legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Twenty-five years or more of international scholarly endeavor has delivered the 16-volume critical edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke and its complete English translation, unquestionably one of the most important achievements in theological publishing …
Editors' Choice
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters to London
The Analogy of Grace
Jennifer M. McBride, The Church for the World
Witness to Christ's Dominion
Bonhoeffer had a specifically theological interest in politics. In politics, as elsewhere, Christians struggle to discern how any given situation wins its reality in and from God in order to orient themselves in the moral field within which political life takes place. Bonhoeffer's own political theology asks how Christians are constituted as agents of political truth and what form their political service should thus take. It is proclamation - the…
Religion and the Human Future
The Fate of Natural Law at the Turning of the Ages
With an eye to the present resurgence of interest in natural law within Protestant theology and ethics, the author explores the transformation of the concept of the “natural” within Paul's telling of the gospel of God as presented in the work of J. Louis Martyn and others in the so-called Union School. What does a quest for moral order via natural law have to do with the ethical question as Paul puts it: “Who is Lord?” or “Who owns the earth?” Th…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer—an Ethics of God's Apocalypse
Bonhoeffer's theology generally and his Ethics in particular have not commonly been thought to be ‘apocalyptic’. Indeed, many have adjudged him to be “almost immunized” against such eschatology. Yet, a close reading of Bonhoeffer's Ethics shows unmistakable resonances between the themes, tasks and argumentative forms of his theological ethics and the contours of pauline apocalyptic as set forth recently in the work of J. Louis Martyn and others. …
Christian Theology and Democratic Politics in Conversation with Jeffrey Stout
The Black Death
Mountbatten
Doing Conscience Over
Thanks to the posthumous publication of the ethics lectures which Karl Barth delivered in Munster in 1928-1929 and then again in Bonn in 1930-1931, the contemporary reader is offered a glimpse both of things that were to come as well as of things which were never to come. 1 These lectures anticipate, both formally and materially, much of what would later appear in the substantive ethical sections of the four volumes of Barth's Church Dogmatics pu…
Christian Theology and Democratic Politics in Conversation with Jeffrey Stout
Dietrich Bonhoeffer—an Ethics of God's Apocalypse
Bonhoeffer's theology generally and his Ethics in particular have not commonly been thought to be ‘apocalyptic’. Indeed, many have adjudged him to be “almost immunized” against such eschatology. Yet, a close reading of Bonhoeffer's Ethics shows unmistakable resonances between the themes, tasks and argumentative forms of his theological ethics and the contours of pauline apocalyptic as set forth recently in the work of J. Louis Martyn and others. …
The Fate of Natural Law at the Turning of the Ages
With an eye to the present resurgence of interest in natural law within Protestant theology and ethics, the author explores the transformation of the concept of the “natural” within Paul's telling of the gospel of God as presented in the work of J. Louis Martyn and others in the so-called Union School. What does a quest for moral order via natural law have to do with the ethical question as Paul puts it: “Who is Lord?” or “Who owns the earth?” Th…
Religion and the Human Future
The Analogy of Grace
Jennifer M. McBride, The Church for the World
Witness to Christ's Dominion
Bonhoeffer had a specifically theological interest in politics. In politics, as elsewhere, Christians struggle to discern how any given situation wins its reality in and from God in order to orient themselves in the moral field within which political life takes place. Bonhoeffer's own political theology asks how Christians are constituted as agents of political truth and what form their political service should thus take. It is proclamation - the…
Introduction to the Volume
This special issue of Theology Today showcases the scholarship of a new generation of theologians inquiring into, thinking with, and inspired by the theological legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Twenty-five years or more of international scholarly endeavor has delivered the 16-volume critical edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke and its complete English translation, unquestionably one of the most important achievements in theological publishing …
Editors' Choice
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters to London
Kevin W. Hector, The Theological Project of Modernism
Joshua Furnal, Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard
Bound Over to Satan’s Tyranny”
What might be the shape of a Reformed account of sin that does justice to the soteriological necessity of conceiving of salvation as a “three agent drama” involving God, the human, and those powers inimical to God of which the Devil is a synecdoche? What role ought the figure of Satan play in contemporary hamartiology, and what is at stake in asking and answering such a question? In conversation with recent work in Pauline apocalyptic as well as …
Insomnolent Anathemas
Over several decades during the second half of the last century, the Romanian-born Parisian intellectual E. M. Cioran penned a series of uneasy works whose despondent obsession with God is matched only by their utter disavowal of the reality of the divine. Wrestling pessimistically with nihilism in a world forged by chronic insomnia, illness, nicotine, and despair, Cioran confronts the theologian with a particularly radical articulation of unbeli…
Brandon Gallaher, Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology
Peter Frick, Understanding Bonhoeffer
The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45) and his writings. It contains sections on Bonhoeffer’s life and context, his contributions to all areas of systematic theology and ethics, constructive uses of Bonhoeffer for engaging contemporary issues, and resources for studying Bonhoeffer today. Contributors include leading Bon…
Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those wishing to understand the German theologian, pastor, and resistance conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and his writings. It contains sections on Bonhoeffer's life and context, his contributions to all areas of systematic theology and ethics, constructive uses of Bonhoeffer for engaging contemporary issues, and resources for studying Bonhoeffer today. Contributors include leading …
Reformed Ethics
Within the wider field of ethical reflection and moral theology, Reformed ethics is tasked with understanding and orienting human action theologically by formative reference to the fundamental description of moral reality provided by Reformed doctrine. The essential features of this moral reality can helpfully be displayed and coordinated around the themes of belonging, gratitude, law, and holiness. Consideration of these themes helps to bring ou…
Parabolic Life
Christian ethicist Nancy Duff has suggested that an apocalyptic hearing of the gospel elicits a parabolic understanding of the Christian moral life. How might the theological basis and rationale of this claim be elaborated? What is it about human life funded by the gospel of God’s apocalypse in Jesus Christ that makes ‘parable’ an apt description of the quality of its action? And how might these notions be elaborated to enrich our understanding o…
Brief Reflections on Theological Studies at the Toronto School of Theology
"Brief Reflections on Theological Studies at the Toronto School of Theology." Toronto Journal of Theology, 37(1), p. 115
How it Ends
This short essay reflects theologically upon aspects of the enigmatic passage 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 and contends that while certainly directed at assuaging the eschatological anxieties of the Christian congregation to whom it is addressed, this passage is not, as is often suggested, uninterested in eschatological doctrine as such. Rather, I argued that it is precisely the apocalyptic vision of the victorious and eloquent epiphany of the Lord tha…
Philosophy (21 works) · Theology (20 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (12 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Conversation (4 works)