Barry Harvey, Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity, James Clarke & Co, Cambridge: 2016, xiii + 342 pages, £21.50, pbk. The subtitle of the book indicates a book in two minds, or at least with two distinct emphases. One focus is the theology, in particular the late theology, [...]
Christoph Von Dohnanyi Warns of Political Intolerance in the U.S.
Christoph Von Dohnanyi, is director emeritus of the Cleveland Orchestra and son of Hans Von Dohnanyi, one of Bonhoeffer’s fellow conspirators killed by the Nazis. Four men in my family were executed by the Nazis. Hans von Dohnanyi, my father, honored in Yad Vashem, was killed in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen short before [...]
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Political Life and Theology
Statement by the Board of Directors of the International Bonhoeffer Society (February 1st, 2017)
Statement Issued by the Board of Directors of the International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section, February 1, 2017 Comprising scholars and religious leaders from the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, the purpose of the English Language Section of the International Bonhoeffer Society is to encourage critical scholarship [...]
Universal Health Care as a Human Right
Universal Health Care as a Human Right: The Argument of Dietrich Bonhoeffer G. Clarke Chapman, The Edward Mellen Press, 2014 Reviewed by John W. Matthews, Apple Valley, Minnesota What an interesting – and ironic – time to review a book on universal health care in the United States. In January 2017, a President was inaugurated [...]
Bonhoeffer and the Breslau Effect: Influences and Upbringing
One impact a theologian or historian considers when writing biography are the early influences that made his subject the person we have come to know. These influences not only pertain to family life, but also environmental factors such as the city where one was born and culture in which one developed a worldview. So as [...]