Berlin, 1932-1933 (Werke / Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Works #12

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Carsten Nicolaisen (Herausgeber), Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth (Herausgeber)

German

Genres: Theology

629 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Protestant theologian of Germany, concern Christianity in the modern world; for his role in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, people executed him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as a Lutheran pastor. He, also a participant in the movement of Resistance against Nazism and a member, founded the confessing church. Members of the Abwehr, the military intelligence office planned his involvement, which resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent hanging in April 1945 shortly before the end of the war. His secular view influenced very many people.

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Reviews

[Corey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best one of these volumes yet. The famous Christology lectures were great. You can definitely see things starting to head downhill in the German church and Germany as a whole at this point.

Second time through and the Christology lectures were even better this time.

[Leon O'Flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

When reading the letters of DB, one is struck by the sheer breath of ideas/people he was engaged with. One new piece of information i found in this volume was the famous radio board-cast in 1933. I had heard that he was cut off on air, by the Nazi authorities. However he specifically wrote a letter to his university stating that this was not the case. He simply went over time, and they had to end it. So a bit of an urban myth put to bed.

[Neil White · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great resource to give additional insight into this critical time in Bonhoeffer's life and Germany as Hitler ascends to power. The casual reader probably isn't going to spend a lot of time in the second half of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's works. This is a collection of his letters, his teaching at Friedrich Wilhelm University (particularly his Christology lectures) and some of his sermons.

[Jon Coutts · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume has value for the letters alone. But then there's also the Christology lecture notes, the sermons and theses on current events, the Bethel Confession, and essays on church, state, kingdom, and social gospel -- making this a priceless insight into the theological and personal considerations of a fateful year.