Taking Hold of the Real

by Barry Harvey

Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had "come to know and understand more and more the profound this-worldliness of Christianity." In Taking Hold of the Real, Barry Harvey engages in constructive conversation with Bonhoeffer, contending that the "shallow and banal this-worldliness" of modern society is ordered to a significant degree around the social technologies of religion, culture, and race. These mechanisms displace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625648448
• ISBN13: 9781625648440
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"