Letters and Papers from PrisonOne of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis after incarceration in Tegel Prison. Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Now reissued with a new Preface, by one of his leading interpreters. Bonhoeffer's story seems as vitally relevant, as politically prophetic, and as theologically significant, as it did yesterday. |
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User Review - David_Brown - LibraryThingAn amazing look into Bonhoeffer's tragically abbreviated life, and the theological thought he didn't live long enough to fully flesh out. This edition contains additional letters to his mentor ... Read full review
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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingProbably more than you really need, and the first few hundred pages are mostly quite dull reading ('Dear Mum, please send chocolate and volume three of seventeen of Schneergartenwiegrunde's ... Read full review
Contents
Publishers Note | |
A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell | |
Prayers for FellowPrisoners | |
Report on Prison Life after One Year in Tegel | |
Thoughts on the Day of the Baptism of Dietrich Wilhelm Rudiger | |
The Past | |
Who am | |
Miscellaneous Thoughts | |
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| Title | Letters and Papers from Prison |
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| Edition | abridged |
| Publisher | SCM Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 0334047935, 9780334047933 |
| Length | 176 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / General |
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