Engaging Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus with Bonhoeffer

Abstract

Bonhoeffer’s selfinterpretation in relation to Williams’ reading of the Harlem Renaissance.Influences of Bonhoeffer’s Union Seminary theological discussion group of friends, and thepreaching of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Question: the relative impacts on Bonhoeffer of theSermon on the Mount and the Harlem Renaissance. Bonhoeffer’s newly found 1934 letter toGandhi is a development of his 1931 thinking in New York. Reviewing Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesusposes questions regarding Bonhoeffer and the proletaria t in Germany, and also his theologicalconcept of Stellvertretung . Query: Why no reference to Josiah Young’s No Difference in theFare