Radler's work on Bonhoeffer and Schmitt offers a timely and groundbreaking contribution. As a native German speaker, with dual expertise in theology and jurisprudence, she illuminates subtle and important elements to Bonhoeffer's critical engagement with Schmitt's notion of Dezision. This book is a must-read for scholars of Bonhoeffer, Schmitt, and persons working in political theology.

Dion A. Forster, Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

With her professional background in German jurisprudence and her thorough academic approach, Karola Radler has produced a ground-breaking study on the intellectual paradigms characterizing the thought of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the jurist Carl Schmitt. This in-depth analysis brilliantly casts light on their diverging views on decision in the context of the emerging National Socialist ideology in Germany. In the process it also hauntingly displays – given our current geopolitical realities – the alternatives facing us in our discourses on political theology today. This excellent study invites, and will reward, serious intellectual and interdisciplinary engagement. Highly recommended!

Robert Vosloo, Stellenbosch University, South Africa