Renate Bethge The following reflection was composed by Renate Bethge with the help of her daughter in advance of the Bonhoeffer Society’s gathering in San Antonio, TX (2004) at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Renate’s daughter also contributed the photo of her mother as young woman . I am aware of [...]
Bonhoeffer in Advent
The year was 1943, and another Advent had dawned for Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer loved Advent and had often preached sermons on this holy season of waiting and hope as a metaphor for the entire Christian life. Just one year earlier, during the Advent of 1942, Bonhoeffer had written a circular letter to some [...]
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Christian Life and Spirituality
Sigurdshof, Bonhoeffer, and Incarnational Education
During the harsh winter of 1939-40 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge, and eight candidates for ministry in the Confessing Church lived and studied together during the tenth and final session of Bonhoeffer’s seminary work. This was one of Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church’s shining moments. There was no prestige to be gained, no careers to be [...]
The Mysterious Mary Bosanquet
We know very little about Mary Bosanquet, who wrote the first Bonhoeffer biography. Her lively book, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, published in 1968, is filled, however, with a rich vein of primary source material. We do know that Bosanquet, writing in the mid-1960s, had earlier become friends with Sabine Leibholz, Bonhoeffer’s twin sister, [...]
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Women in Bonhoeffer’s Life
Aufbrücke zu neuen Ufern
Contemporary Church History Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 3 (September 2015) Review of Heike Springhart, Aufbrücke zu neuen Ufern: Der Beitrag von Religion und Kirche für Demokratisierung und Reeducation im Westen Deutschlands nach 1945(Leipzig: Evangelisches Verlagsanstalt, 2008), 360 pages. ISBN: 9783374026128. By Victoria J. Barnett, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum The immediate aftermath of World War [...]