Introducing Bonhoeffer through Biography

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Bethge, Eberhard. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, translated by Victoria J. Barnett. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000. (1068 pages)

Bethge, Renate. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life, translated by K.C. Hanson. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2004. (108 pages)

Marsh, Charles. Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. (528 pages)

Schlingensiepen, Ferdinand. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, translated by Isabel Best. New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2010. (472 pages)

Tietz, Christiane. Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thoughts of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, translated by Victoria J. Barnett. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016. (150 pages)

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