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Record Nr.

UNISA996248343203316

Autore

Bonhoeffer Dietrich <1906-1945.>

Titolo

Letters and Papers From Prison / / edited by Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge, and Renate Bethge, with Ilse Tödt ; English edition edited by John W. de Gruchy ; translated by Isabel Best ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis [Minn.], : Fortress Press, 2009

ISBN

1-4514-0678-9

Edizione

[1st English-language ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (778 p.)

Collana

Dietrich Bonhoeffer works ; ; v. 8

Altri autori (Persone)

De GruchyJohn W

TödtIlse <1930->

BethgeRenate

BethgeEberhard <1909-2000>

GremmelsChristian <1941->

Disciplina

230.044092

230/.044092

Soggetti

Theologians - Germany

Prisoners of war - Germany

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-662) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

General Editor's Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works; Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction to the English Edition; PROLOGUE; An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943; PART 1: The Interrogation Period April-July 1943; PART 2: Awaiting the Trial August 1943-April 1944; PART 3: Holding Out for the Coup Attempt April-July 1944; PART 4: After the Failure July 1944-February 1945; Epilogue; The Survivor Looks Back; Editor's Afterword to the German Edition; Appendix 1: Chronology 1942-1945; Appendix 2: Bonhoeffer Family Tree

Appendix 3: Texts Published in DBWE 8 and in Letters and Papers from Prison and Gesammelte SchriftenAppendix 4: Unpublished Material from Bonhoeffer's Literary Estate; Bibliography; Index of Scriptural References; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; Editors and Translators

Sommario/riassunto

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prior theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The



materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America; they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting ideas of religionless Christianity, his open and honest theological appraisal of Christian doctrines, and his sturdy faith in face of uncertainty