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. |
Contents
A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell | 5 |
Prayers for FellowPrisoners | 30 |
Report on Prison Life after One Year in Tegel | 82 |
Thoughts on the Day of the Baptism | 99 |
The Past | 114 |
Who am I? | 130 |
Miscellaneous Thoughts | 141 |
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