After 10 Years Bonhoeffer

This post was originally published november 24 2007 at my former blog the presbyterian polis.

After 10 years bonhoeffer. This brief new work elevates dietrich bonhoeffer s after ten years essay to the central place in the bonhoeffer canon that it deserves. After ten years in letters and papers from prison. The editor of this essay has also a love of bonhoeffer.

Dietrich bonhoeffer s epideictic exhortation to responsible action. For past couple of months i ve been drawn to the writings of dietrich bonhoeffer. After ten years seventy years ago today as dawn was breaking on the new year dietrich bonhoeffer sent out a long letter to his closest friends.

Back to text 23 ibid 5. After ten years is a succinct and sober reflection and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the german people under national socialism. I post it now as i believe it provides us perspective for the times we are in.

Bonhoeffer s after ten years for our time. A copy of this letter was later discovered in the attic of his parent s house. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by bonhoeffer in 1942.

The book is comprised of two parts. In after ten years the small set of brief essays written by bonhoeffer in 1942 as he reflected back on a decade of resisting hitler one of the most important passages is entitled on stupidity it s point is simple. The macmillan company 1971 16 17.

They may have normal. Barnett s new introduction to this seminal bonhoeffer text helps readers understand it better in its own context and in the context of our own troubled times. An account at the turn of the year 1942 1943 produced by martin and barbara rumscheidt for the dbwe letters and papers from prison published.