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In Memoriam: Martin Henkys

Professor Jürgen Henkys died in Berlin on October 27, 2015, twelve days after the death of his beloved wife Erika.  He was 85.  The German section of the Bonhoeffer Society esteemed him for his remarkable 2005 book on Bonhoeffer’s prison poetry, Geheimnis der Freiheit: Die Gedichte Dietrich Bonhoeffers aus der Haft and its predecessor publications.  [...]

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Taizé Geneve – Aber du weisst den Weg für mich

https://youtu.be/G-GfThZpf28 These lyrics were written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the song composed by brothers of Taizé. The video shows the evening prayer at Palexpo, during the European meeting organized by the Taizé Community, in Geneve. 28 December 2007 – 1 January 2008.

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 [...]

Bonhoeffer – A Choral Theatre Work

https://www.youtube.com/embed/g8U1xnq-hZo This composition, Bonhoeffer, a choral-theater work, by Thomas Lloyd was nominated for a Grammy in 2017 at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in the “Best Choral Performance” category.   Learn more about Thomas Lloyd Learn more about Lloyd’s Bonhoeffer Composition

The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Bonhoeffer Resources at Union The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary contains two downloadable bibliographies concerning Dietrich Bonhoeffer, addressing primary and secondary source material related to his life and activities. They are intended to be a near-exhaustive list of sources on Bonhoeffer, primarily in English. In addition to the bibliographies, two archival, non-circulating, collections of materials [...]

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