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Who am I? - Bonhoeffer's Theology through his Poetry (Paperback, NIPPOD)
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Who am I? - Bonhoeffer's Theology through his Poetry (Paperback, NIPPOD)
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It has often been noted that poetry is a particularly suitable
medium when it comes to understanding the connection between
theology and biography. Needless to say that this is particularly
exciting in the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the poems he wrote
during his imprisonment by the Nazis.
Although any one of his ten poems should be read within their
respective historical and biographical context, they are also
rounded, self-sufficient pieces of work that cannot be 'explained'
by the biographical and theological prose that surrounds them. They
rather serve as a sort of creative and perhaps sometimes even
critical interlocutor to these contexts. This is why the
contributors to this volume have not been asked to explain the
poems but to facilitate this conversation: the conversation between
the reader and the poems, between the individual poems as well as
between the poems and Bonhoeffer's life and his theology. These
poems lend themselves ideally as an entry point into Bonhoeffer's
theology, in that each one of them resonates with a particular
central theological concept that Bonhoeffer was developing in his
prison years.
Themes and concepts such as "friendship," "religion," "identity,"
"freedom," "representative action" and others are not only
represented in these poems but often expressed in the dense and
compelling fashion that only poetic language affords. As such, they
deserve the thorough and imaginative engagement of the
international line-up of first-class theological authors gathered
in this book.
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