Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North [...]
Volume 13: London: 1933-1935
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s pastoral sojourn in England from October 1933 to April of 1935, which he initially viewed as a withdrawal from the church clashes in Germany, marked instead a new phase in his intensive participation in that struggle. This enlightening volume provides an almost daily documentation of his deepening engagement against the placid backdrop of [...]
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Bonhoeffer Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Bonhoeffer Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. The USHMM has extensive archival and library resources pertaining to the history of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and related topics. Because the USHMM library collects comprehensively with respect to the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, it has a definitive collection [...]
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A Review of Mary Solberg’s “A Church Undone”
A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement 1932-1940. Selected, Translated and Introduced by Mary M. Solberg. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. 486 pp. Reviewed by Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College Mary Solberg’s A Church Undone is a welcome addition to the literature on support for Hitler within the German Evangelical Church during the 1930s [...]
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance. Reggie L. Williams. Waco TX: Baylor Univ. Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-60258-804-2. xii+184 pgs. $24.00 Bonhoeffer studies of the past sixty-five years have traveled along two streams, sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged. Call them thinking about Bonhoeffer and thinking with him. Thinking about Bonhoeffer has [...]