Theology against Religion

This book asks the

question ''what is religion?'' from a theological perspective. In an age in which

religion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that we

should take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critique

theologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion was

central to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and

that Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the same

trajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is this

trajectory that this book seeks to explore in thinking with and beyond

Bonhoeffer, and by identifying a series of themes around which construction

engagements can take place. The result is an exciting series of discussions

which take seriously the interplay of the religious, the secular, pluralism and

the concept of God, with chapters on salvation, the church, the public square

and other faiths.