Bonhoeffer After 10 Years

Bonhoeffer s witness and example is more relevant than ever.

Bonhoeffer after 10 years. In december 1942 bonhoeffer sent a christmas letter after ten years to his closest friends in the resistance. The editor of this essay has also a love of bonhoeffer. I post it now as i believe it provides us perspective for the times we are in.

Back to text 24 bonhoeffer gesammelte schriften 1 letter dated 15 5 1934 munich. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by bonhoeffer in 1942. It was this reading that made me realize i am joyfully and gladly a follower of christ and wish others to have the same joy.

Dietrich bonhoeffer s epideictic exhortation to responsible action. This post was originally published november 24 2007 at my former blog the presbyterian polis. Back to text 23 ibid 5.

For past couple of months i ve been drawn to the writings of dietrich bonhoeffer. 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. The macmillan company 1971 16 17.

After ten years in letters and papers from prison. 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. Article by victoria barnett.

One of the most moving books in my life is the cost of discipleship. Edited by victoria h. The complexity of bonhoeffer s witness and example is more relevant than ever.