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Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work - 1931-1932: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 11 (Hardcover, New)
Victoria J. Barnett, Isabel Best, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mark Brocker, Marion Pauck, …
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Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English
Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932,
provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffers important
writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary about their
historical context and theological significance. This volume covers
the significant period of Bonhoeffer's entry into the international
ecumenical world and the final months before the beginning of the
National Socialist dictatorship. It begins with Bonhoeffer's return
to Berlin in June 1931 after his year of study in the United
States. In the crucial period that followed, Bonhoeffer continued
his preparations for the ministry, began teaching at Berlin
University, and became active at international ecumenical meetings.
His letters and lectures, however, also document the economic and
political turbulence on the European and world stage, and
Bonhoeffer directly addresses the growing threat of the Nazi
movement and what it portends not only for Germany, but for the
world. Several of the documents in this volume, particularly the
student notes of his university lecture on "The Nature of the
Church" and his lectures on Christian ethics, give important
insights into his theology at this point. His ecumenical lectures
and reports are significant documents for understanding the
ecumenical debates of this period.
The completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the definitive
English translation of the Critical Edition, represents a milestone
in theological scholarship. This wonderful series is a translation
from the German editions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke. The product
of over twenty years of dedicated labor, the comprehensive and
thoroughly-annotated sixteen-volume series will be the essential
resource that generations of scholars will rely upon to understand
the life and work of this seminal thinker in the wider frame of
twentieth-century thought and history. Now, the editorial team has
offered an essential companion to the entire series in the form of
an index volume.
In the spring of 1935 Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to
direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The
seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed
in August 1937. The two years of Finkenwalde's existence produced
some of Bonhoeffer's most significant theological work as he
prepared these young seminarians for the turbulence and risk of
parish ministry in the Confessing Church. Bonhoeffer and his
seminarians were under Gestapo surveillance; some of them were
arrested and imprisoned. Throughout, he remained dedicated to
training them for the ministry and its challenges in a difficult
time. This volume includes bible studies, sermons, and lectures on
homiletics, pastoral care, and catechesis, giving a moving and
up-close portrait of the Confessing Church in these crucial
yearsthe same period during which Bonhoeffer wrote his classics,
Discipleship and Life Together.
This volume, published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary
of Bonhoeffer's birth, documents Bonhoeffer's life under the
increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany.
In hundreds of letters, including ten never-before-published
letters to his fiancee, Maria von Wedemeyer, as well as official
documents, short original pieces, and a few final sermons, the
volume sheds light on Bonhoeffer's active resistance to and
increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime,
his arrest, and his long imprisonment. Finally, Bonhoeffer's many
exchanges with his family, fiancee, and closest friends,
demonstrate the affection and solidarity that accompanied
Bonhoeffer to his prison cell, concentration camp, and eventual
death.
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