CONTENTS

General Editor’s Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works -- ix

Abbreviations -- xv

Editor’s Introduction to the English Edition, Clifford J. Green -- pg.1

Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church

Preface -- pg. 21

CHAPTER ONE: On the Definition of Social Philosophy and Sociology -- pg. 24

CHAPTER TWO: The Christian Concept of Person and opts of Social Basic-Relation -- pg. 34

CHAPTER THREE: The Primal State and the Problem of Community -- pg. 58

CHAPTER FOUR: Sin and Broken Community -- pg. 107

CHAPTER FIVE: Sanctorum Communio -- pg. 122

Editor's Afterword to the German Edition, Joachim von Soosten -- pg. 290

Chronology -- pg. 307

Bibliography -- pg. 310

Literature Used by Bonhoeffer -- pg. 310

Literature Consulted by the Editors -- pg. 332

Other Literature Related to Sanctorum Communio -- pg. 345

Index of Scriptural References -- pg. 351

Index of Names -- pg. 355

Index of Subjects -- pg. 360

Editors and Translators -- pg. 372

The church as God’s new humanity—
Now in paperback, this unabridged and newly translated edition presents Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s view of the communion of saints as “Christ existing as church-community.” Framed by his theology of sociality, which understood the church not as a religious sect but as God's new humanity, Bonhoeffer brings theology into dialogue with sociology and social philosophy. Here are the roots that grew into his ecumenical work for peace in the 1930s, his classic Life Together, and his church-based resistance to Hitler in the Confessing Church.