Prayers from prison: Prayers and poems

BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH

Religion & Spirituality

Collins

Christology

Christian Books & Bibles

Fount Pbs.

Love Letters From Cell 92

These letters record the relationship between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fiancee Maria von Wedemeyer while he was held in Berlin's Tegel prison. They show the passionate and romantic side of Bonhoeffer which has always been shielded by his reputation as a brilliant academic theologian.

Love Letters from Cell 92

von Wedemeyer, Maria

Bismarck, Ruth Alice von

Fount

Born in 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the son of a professor of psychiatry. He grew up in academic surroundings and in 1930 was appointed lecturer in systematic theology at Berlin University. In 1933 he made his first attack on Hitler's political ideas. Two years later, after a period spent in England, he was forbidden to teach and banned from Berlin by Nazi authorities. At the outbreak of war, against the advice of all his friends, he gave up the security of the U.S.A., where he was on a lecture tour, and returned to Germany to work for the Confessing Church and the political opposition to Hitler. He was arrested in April, 1943, and two years later, after imprisonment in Buchenwald, he was hanged at Flossenburg.

The Way to Freedom: Letters, Lectures and Notes from the Collected Works (The Fontana Library)

Bowden, John

Robertson, E.H.

HarperCollins, Publishers

One hundred sixty readings, selected from Bonhoeffer's major works including "Ethics," "The Cost of Discipleship," and "Letters and Papers from Prison," reflect Bonhoeffer's powerful message of active Christian living

The Martyred Christian

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Some creasing on the spine otherwise great shape

Letters & Papers from Prison

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The MacMillan Company

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER was a lecturer in theology at Berlin University when he first made his attack on Hitler's political ideas in 1933. Soon he was forbidden to teach and was banned from Berlin by the Nazi authorities. After spending time outside Germany, Bonhoeffer returned to his homeland at the outbreak of the war to join the Confessing Church and the political opposition to Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943, sent to Buchenwald and executed in 1945. Before Bonhoeffer was hanged in a Nazi prison camp, he sent a message through a fellow prisoner to his old friend, Bishop Bell of Chichester: "Tell him," he said, "that for me this is the end but also the beginning." The same is true of Bonhoeffer's thought, cut short and surviving only in fragments, but of seminal significance. TRUE PATRIOTISM is the colorful story of a churchman's final struggle with his conscience and the demons of the church and the state. These "letters, lectures, and notes" include such items as an outline for a book never published and fragments of a drama never produced. They cover the period in Bonhoeffer's life from the outbreak of the war in 1939 until his death in 1945 and show that the theologian, the conspirator, and the prisoner were all one man, one of the greatest figures of our time. Here are the years of tension and suffering which also issued in creative theological thinking. So Bonhoeffer's remarks on the church were forges in the heat of the controversy between the dissident Confessing Church and the pro-Nazi German Christians. His ethical reflections, which here clarify material published posthumously in ETHICS, were developed in the midst of anxiety over "Operation 7" and his dangerous role as a double agent out to get Hitler. The value of Bonhoeffer's last thoughts lies not so much in the answers they suggest to contemporary problems as in the insights they provide for us in the daily decisions of conscience we all have to face.

True patriotism; letters, lectures, and notes, 1939-45,

Harper and Row

The New York Times Book Review states, “It would be impossible to overrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s importance as a disciple, a great Christian and moral leader.” Christ the Center cogently presents the basis of Bonhoeffer’s thinking about Jesus Christ and offers the key to his entire theology. A classic work of Christological thought, both edifying and uplifting, Christ the Center is an enlightening guide to faith and action in uncertain times.

Christ the Center (Harper's Ministers Paperback Library)

History

World

HarperOne

Gathers selected writings by the influential Christian theologian who, at age thirty-nine, was executed by the Nazis

A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Kelly, Geffrey B.

Harpercollins

A beautiful gift edition of Bonhoeffer's classic work on the meaning and importance of Christian community. This inspiring account of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany reads like one of Paul's letters and gives timeless advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups.

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

Harper-San Francisco

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