Notes from a wayfarer : the autobiography of Helmut Thielicke / translated by David R. Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thielicke, Helmut, 1908-1986

Standardized Title:

Zu Gast auf einem schönen Stern. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Thielicke, Helmut, 1908-1986.

Thielicke, Helmut.

Lutheran Church--Germany (West)--Clergy--Biography.

Lutheran Church.

Germany (West).

Clergy.

Theologians--Germany (West)--Biography.

Theologians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 422 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Paragon House, 1995.

Summary:

Helmut Thielicke was one of the most read and most listened to theologians of our time. In Notes From a Wayfarer, written shortly after his 75th birthday, Thielicke sets forth his memoirs from a long and full life. Without pretense or self-promotion, Thielicke introduces us to the figures whom he counted among his friends and acquaintances: Karl Barth, Konrad Adenauer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dwight Eisenhower, Helmut Kohl, and Jimmy Carter. Thielicke was, moreover, a witness to many of the most significant events of our century; his life history is interwoven with the Kaiser period, the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Third Reich, a divided Germany, and the tumultuous 60s. From the perspective of this single life we are afforded a broad and clear vision of the moments that have shaped the generation leading us into the 21st century.

Notes:

Translation of: Zu Gast auf einem schönen Stern.

Bibliography of the author's works in English: pages 421-421.

ISBN:

1557787085 :

OCLC:

31239180