Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906a1945) remains one of the most enigmatic
figures of the twentieth century. His life evokes fascination,
eliciting attention from a wide and diverse audience. Bonhoeffer is
rightly remembered as theologian and philosopher, ethicist and
political thinker, wartime activist and resister, church leader and
pastor, martyr and saint. These many sides to Bonhoeffer do not
give due prominence to the aspect of his life that wove all the
disparate parts into a coherent whole: Bonhoeffer as preacher. In
Dietrich: Bonhoeffer and the Theology of a Preaching Life Michael
Pasquarello traces the arc of Bonhoeffer's public career,
demonstrating how, at every stage, Bonhoeffer focused upon
preaching, both in terms of its ecclesial practice and the theology
that gave it life. Pasquarello chronicles a period of
preparationaBonhoeffer's study of Luther and Barth, his struggleto
reconcile practical ministry with preaching, andhis discovery of
preaching's ethic of resistance. Next Pasquarello describes
Bonhoeffer's maturation as a preacherahis crafting a homiletic
theology, as well as preaching's relationship to politics and
public confession. Pasquarello follows Bonhoeffer's forced
itinerancy until he became, ultimately, a preacher without any
congregation at all. In the end, Bonhoeffer's life was his best
sermon. Dietrich presents Bonhoeffer as an exemplar in the
preaching tradition of the church. His exercise of theological and
homiletical wisdom in particular times, places, and
circumstancesaBerlin, Barcelona, Harlem, London,
Finkenwaldeareveals the particular kind of intellectual, spiritual,
and moral formation required for faithful, concrete witness to the
gospel in the practice of proclamation, both then and now.
Bonhoeffer's story as a pastor and teacher of preachers provides a
historical example of how the integration of theology and ministry
is the fruit of wisdom cultivated through a life of discipleship
with others in prayer, study, scriptural meditation, and mutual
service.
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