Well introduced and contextualized by Craig Nessan and Renate Wind, this volume consists of excerpts from Bonhoeffer's 1933 lectures, which are strikingly relevant today, along with other, contemporary writings from and about him.
Well introduced and contextualized by Craig Nessan and Renate Wind, this volume consists of excerpts from Bonhoeffer's 1933 lectures, which are striki...
Creation and Fall originated in lectures given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932--33 during the demise of the Weimar Republic and the birth of the Third Reich. In the course of these events, Bonhoeffer called his students to focus on the word of God the word of truth in a time of turmoil.
Creation and Fall originated in lectures given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932--33 during the demise...
Daily, quiet reflection on the Word of God as it applies to me becomes for me a point of crystallization for everything that gives interior and exterior order to my life, wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his colleagues at the warfront in the winter of 1942. Now back in print after a decade, this collection of Bonhoeffer s writings, sermons, and letters on meditation including his unfinished meditation on Psalm 119 reveals his deep love for the Bible as a focus for his prayer life and a support in his courageous political life. Why do I meditate? asks Bonhoeffer. Because I am a Christian....
Daily, quiet reflection on the Word of God as it applies to me becomes for me a point of crystallization for everything that gives interior and exteri...
The essential writings of one of the most significant Christian witnesses of this century sends a challenging message about martyrdom and resistance to evil.
The essential writings of one of the most significant Christian witnesses of this century sends a challenging message about martyrdom and resistance t...
The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor." Here, therefore, we find Bonhoeffer's thoughts about power, revelation, otherness, theological method, and theological anthropology.
The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deal...
Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the first time in its entirety in English, includes all material omitted from the original 1930 German publication. Bonhoeffer's doctoral dissertation sets out the theology of sociality that informed all his work, engaging social philosophy and sociology to interpret the church as "Christ existing as church-community." Here are the roots of his commitment to the Confessing church and the ecumenical movement, and of his actions in the resistance...
Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the...
Writing fiction, letters to his family, fiancee, and friends and contending with his interrogator occupied Bonhoeffer during his first year in Tegel Prison. Of the incomplete drama, the novel fragment, and the short story, Bonhoeffer admitted to his friend and later biographer, Eberhard Bethge, There is a good deal of autobiography mixed with it. This book discloses a great deal of Bonhoeffer's family context, social world, and cultural milieu. Events from his life are recounted in a way that embodies and illuminates his theology. Characters and situations that represent Nazi types and...
Writing fiction, letters to his family, fiancee, and friends and contending with his interrogator occupied Bonhoeffer during his first year in Tegel P...
"There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ."
"No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human."
These stirring words are among forty devotions that guide and inspire readers as they move thematically through the weeks of Advent and Christmas, from waiting and mystery to redemption,...
"There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become trul...
Dieses Buch enthält sämtliche Ethik-Manuskripte Bonhoeffers§Theologische Ethik bedeutete für Dietrich Bonhoeffer die unbedingte Hingabe zur Welt, also: den Willen Gottes und die Wirklichkeit der Welt zu erfassen. Bonhoeffers zwischen 1940 und 1943 niedergeschriebene Manuskripte zur "Ethik" werden hier in der rekonstruierten Reihenfolge ihrer Entstehung publiziert.§Die Anmerkungen der Herausgeber begründen die neue Rekonstruktion und erhellen u.a. die teilweise chiffrierten, zeitgeschichtlichen Bezüge dieser Ethik und ihre theologische Bedeutung.§
Dieses Buch enthält sämtliche Ethik-Manuskripte Bonhoeffers§Theologische Ethik bedeutete für Dietrich Bonhoeffer die unbedingte Hingabe zur Welt, ...