Sermon Tone Analysis

1 Editor’s note: See Robert W. Yarbrough, “The Embattled Bible: Four More Books,” Them 34 (2009): 6–25, available at http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/the_embattled_bible_four_more_books.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

2 As the merest of examples spanning the last half century, see Walter Harrelson, “Bonhoeffer and the Bible,” in The Place of Bonhoeffer: Problems and Possibilities in His Thought (ed.

Martin Marty; New York: Association Press, 1962), 115–39; Jay Rochelle, “Bonhoeffer and Biblical Interpretation: Reading Scripture in the Spirit,” CurTM 22:2 (April 1995): 85–95; Stephen Plant, “ ‘In the Bible It Is God Who Speaks’: Peake and Bonhoeffer on Reading Scripture,” Epworth Review 33:4 (2006): 7–22.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

3 Martin Marty, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), 248.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

4 Nashville: Nelson, 2010.

5 Marty, Dietrich, 187–88.

6 Bill McKibben, “Pipeline to Disaster,” Christian Century 128:21 (October 18, 2011), 10.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

7 The story is told in Metaxas, Bonhoeffer, 5281

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Themelios, 37(2).

8 See for example Richard Weikart, “So Many Different Dietrich Bonhoeffers,” TJ 32 (2011): 69–81; idem, “Metaxas’s Counterfeit Bonhoeffer: An Evangelical Critique,” http://www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/weikart/metaxas.htm

(accessed November 8, 2011).1

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Themelios, 37(2).

9 Marty, Dietrich, 75.

10 Ibid., 49.

Cf. 155, 224.

11 See Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking (New York: Basic, 1997).1

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Themelios, 37(2).

12 http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/wrjp3310.html

(accessed November 8, 2011).1

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Themelios, 37(2).

13 Metaxas, Bonhoeffer, 496.

14 Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage (New York: Harper &Row, 1970), 34.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

15 Editor’s note: On Schlatter, see Werner Neuer, Adolf Schlatter: A Biography of Germany’s Premier Biblical Theologian (trans.

Robert W. Yarbrough; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995); Adolf Schlatter, Do We Know Jesus?

(trans.

Robert W. Yarbrough and Andreas J. Köstenberger; Grand Rapids: Kregel: 2005); Robert Yarbrough, “Adolf Schlatter’s ‘The Significance of Method for Theological Work’: Translation and Commentary,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 1:2 (1997): 64–77; idem, “Adolf Schlatter,” in Biblical Interpreters of the Twentieth Century: A Selection of Evangelical Voices (ed.

Walter Elwell and J. D. Weaver; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999), 59–72; idem, “Schlatter Reception Now: His New Testament Theology,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 3:1 (1999): 52–65; idem, The Salvation Historical Fallacy?

Reassessing the History of New Testament Theology (History of Biblical Interpretation Series 2; Leiden: Deo, 2004), 81–114; idem, “Witness to the Gospel in Academe: Adolf Schlatter as a Teacher of the Church,” Perichoresis 4:1 (2006): 1–17; idem; “Adolf Schlatter (1852–1938),” in Dictionary of Major Bible Interpreters (ed.

Donald McKim; Downers Grove: IVP, 2007), 881–85.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

16 The author wishes to thank audiences at the Tyndale Fellowship breakfast in San Francisco in November 2011, at Phoenix Seminary in January 2012, and at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in March 2012, for critically interacting with earlier recensions of this essay.

I have also benefited from comments by students from the Covenant Seminary Theological Society.1

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Themelios, 37(2).

Footnotes to Robert W. Yarbrough, “Bonhoeffer as Bible Scholar” in Themelios 37: 2, July 2012.