"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.