Christology Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer In his Christology lectures, Bonhoeffer starkly opposes the theological method prevalent among his colleagues at the University of Berlin and their theological justification of the Nazi movement via their doctrine of the orders of creation. He begins not with a quest for the “historical Jesus” (he believed that all such quests have f... more »ailed), but rather with the concept of Christ as the risen Word of God who reveals God to us today. This Christology from above contrasts the human logos with the divine Logos, who we can only approach through faithful attentiveness. “Christology, as the doctrine about Christ, is a rather peculiar area of scholarship, [to the extent that] Christ is the very Word of God. Christology is doctrine, speaking, the word about the Word of God. Christ is the Logos of God." In keeping with Karl Barth’s dialectical theology, Bonhoeffer emphasizes the transcendence of God and God’s revelatory Word that enters our existence with authority. This revelation, he explains, defies human efforts to classify and to question.« less