摘要 德國神學家潘霍華(Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945)常問的兩個問題:今日的基督是誰?( Who is Christ for us today ? ) 以及基督在哪裡(Christ is where?)潘霍華認為神藉耶穌基督且唯獨藉耶穌基督啟示他自己,這就是他神學與倫理學的中心思想。 潘霍華作《聖徒相通》、《誰是今在昔在的耶穌基督》,都有濃厚以基督為中心的思想,日後的《團契生活》,《追隨基督》,也充滿相同的實踐理念,接下來的《倫理學》,是結合實在概念的關鍵著述,如何在現實的世界中活出這樣的生命,將是《倫理學》一書中的主要概念。 潘霍華被捕入獄後,思想的對象和領域反倒寬闊起來,不再侷限於學術界,也不自限在教會中,而是自由伸展在人們實際生活的各個領域,亦即上帝創造活生生的大地上。他在獄中實際體驗到人性的軟弱與堅強,也經歷了生命的悲歡與離合。因此,他的神學理念在此得到極大的昇華,成為充滿生命力的神學,也成了後人不斷研究與討論的題材。
Abstract Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) frequently asked two questions: ‘Who is Jesus Christ for today?’ and ‘Where is Christ?’ Bonhoeffer thought that God did the Revelation of Himself by and only by Jesus Christ, that is his central idea of theology and ethics. Bonhoeffer has, as showed in The Communion of Saints and Christology, a Christ-centered thinking, and later on his Fellowship, and Follow Christ, are full of the same practice philosophy. Furthermore Ethics is his key writing combining practical concepts e.g. how to live in the real world out of this life, which would play a central role in Ethics. The object and the scope of his thought actually become wider and are no longer confined to the academic circle, after Bonhoeffer was imprisoned, nor self-limited in churches but stretching freely in all areas of real life of people, for God has created a living earth. In prison he actually experienced not only weakness and strength of human being, but also the joys and sorrows of life. His theological ideas, obtained in this great sublimation, become a theology full of vitality and continue to be studied and discussed as the subject matter.