Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters and papers from prison : a biography / Martin E. Marty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marty, Martin E., 1928-2025.

Series:

Lives of great religious books.

Lives of great religious books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--Germany--Correspondence.

Prisoners of war.

Theologians--Germany--Correspondence.

Theologians.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. Widerstand und Ergebung.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. The posthumous Letters and Papers from Prison has had a tremendous impact on both Christian and secular thought since it was first published in 1951, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career, National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty tells how and why Letters and Papers from Prison has been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the cold war to today. In his late letters, Bonhoeffer raised tantalizing questions about the role of Christianity and the church in an increasingly secular world. Marty tells the story of how, in the 1960s and the following decades, these provocative ideas stirred a wide range of thinkers and activists, including civil rights and antiapartheid campaigners, "death-of-God" theologians, and East German Marxists. In the process of tracing the eventful and contested history of Bonhoeffer's book, Marty provides a compelling new perspective on religious and secular life in the postwar era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Birth of a Book

Chapter 2. The "Gradual" Editor

Chapter 3. The Decisive Turns

Chapter 4. Travels East

Chapter 5. Travels West

Chapter 6. The Worlds of Two Strangers

Chapter 7. Travels around the World

Chapter 8. Continuity and Change

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613001313

9781782685593

1782685596

9781283001311

1283001314

9781400838035

1400838037

OCLC:

721193963