Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letter To Eberhard Bethge

The letters spanned four months from late april the first theological letter is dated april 30 to the end of august.

Dietrich bonhoeffer letter to eberhard bethge. Well chronicled in bonhoeffer s letters and papers from prison as well as in bethge s influential biography of bonhoeffer their friendship offers profound insights into both who bonhoeffer was and what friendship is. Dietrich bonhoeffer s friendship with eberhard bethge is one of the great examples of friendship that one might find recorded in history. 3 18 2007 6 34 00 pm other titles.

John petty last modified by. Letter of dietrich bonhoeffer to eberhard bethge april 30 1944. These letters can be found from pp.

The theological letters were written by bonhoeffer to bethge during the last year of bonhoeffer s life 1944 while bonhoeffer was in tegel prison in berlin. In a letter bonhoeffer wrote to eberhard in the summer of 1944 when he realized he wouldn t be released in time to preach at the baptism of his godchild he said i believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so even if it runs counter to our own wishes. Bonhoeffer noting the changes in the world around him observed that people were becoming radically religionless and wondered aloud how can christ become lord of the religionless as well.

278 394 in letters and papers. In his letter to eberhard bethge on 30 april 1944 dietrich bonhoeffer accused karl barth of arriving at a positivism of revelation 1 that an inconsistency of scholarly opinion concerning the meaning of offenbarungpositivismus exists warrants further clarification and study of the accusation.