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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison - A Biography (Paperback)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison - A Biography (Paperback)
Series: Lives of Great Religious Books
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Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
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From National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty, the
surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cell
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.
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