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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison" is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role...more
ebook, 288 pages
Published
February 27th 2011
by Princeton University Press
(first published February 21st 2011)
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This was very enjoyable for someone who was really taken with LPP and especially someone who is young, like me, and didn't get to walk through all the reactions. I knew of Honest to God and the Death of God radicals seizing on the letters, but never quite understood how it happened given his earlier writings and even the general feel of the letters.
The couple of other striking learning moments in the book were:
1. Learning about how insane it is that we even have this book. Most of the really pr...more
The couple of other striking learning moments in the book were:
1. Learning about how insane it is that we even have this book. Most of the really pr...more
This is rather a fascinating book. It is a biography of a book. A book that is arguably one of the most influential Christian reflections written in the 20th century, Dietrich Bonhoffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. On the one hand for me this biography was as dry as dirt written by a highly qualified scholar for people who like himself speaks in “theologian” whose active vocabularies contain words like eschatology, hermeneutics, and Christology scholars who use precise guarded language with...more
A scholarly work by Martin E. Marty tracing the "life" of a the book Letters Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bohoeffer. Published by Princeton University press, this volume traces the influences and journeys of this famous piece of religious literature. I found it informative and interesting. A great tool for those wanting to dig deeper in their understanding of Bonhoeffer and his writings.
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An interesting idea - tracing the "life" of a book from its origins through the different times and places of its reception. Martin E. Marty, for such a short book, packs in a relatively wide ranging overview of the different interpretations of the "Letters and Papers" in an accessible way. My largest complaint is that I would have like to have seen a full bibliography included as this would have made it easier to follow up on some of the different works and individuals referenced.
Interesting history of the reception of Bonhoeffer's classic - lot in here I had not idea about. A very interesting concept for a book, apparently one of a series planned from this publisher.
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This is a good summary of the arc of Bonhoeffer's thought and the life of the classic "Letters and Papers from Prison"
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Martin Emil Marty is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School, held an endowed chair, and now holds emeritus sta...more
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