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Theologian of resistance : the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Christiane Tietz ; Victoria J. Barnett, translator.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 141 pages : portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1506408443
  • 9781506408446
Other title:
  • Life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Uniform titles:
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 230.044092 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • BX4827.B57T54813 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
From Breslau to Berlin, 1906-1923 -- The return from Tübingen to Berlin, 1923-1927 -- Wider horizons, 1928-1931 -- Beginnings, 1931-1932 -- The beginning church struggle, 1933 -- Pastor in London, 1933-1935 -- Director of a preachers' seminary,1935-1937 -- The path into illegality, 1937-1940 -- The conspiracy period, 1940-1943 -- Prisoner in Tegel, 1943-1945 -- Epilogue: A modern saint?
Summary: Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer's death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer's life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and accessible, Tietz's new account brings Bonhoeffer's story and work to life in a vivid retelling, unfolding his important and widely read texts in the process.
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Originally published in German under the title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Theologie im Widerstand. München : C.H. Beck, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index.

From Breslau to Berlin, 1906-1923 -- The return from Tübingen to Berlin, 1923-1927 -- Wider horizons, 1928-1931 -- Beginnings, 1931-1932 -- The beginning church struggle, 1933 -- Pastor in London, 1933-1935 -- Director of a preachers' seminary,1935-1937 -- The path into illegality, 1937-1940 -- The conspiracy period, 1940-1943 -- Prisoner in Tegel, 1943-1945 -- Epilogue: A modern saint?

Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer's death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer's life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and accessible, Tietz's new account brings Bonhoeffer's story and work to life in a vivid retelling, unfolding his important and widely read texts in the process.

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