The Board of Directors of the International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Society (IBS-ELS) met last Friday (11/17/18) in Denver, CO in advance of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. The Board renewed its commitment to advancing the theology and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the academy, church, and world as well as encouraging [...]
My Bonhoeffer Story (by Alice Bond)
Reflection by Alice Bond at the Annual Bonhoeffer Society Members’ Dinner (San Antonio 2016) I’m standing here because of a casual question from Mark Brocker, during lunch in Basel last July, asking how I got involved in the Bonhoeffer Society. After I told my story, he asked if I would consider sharing it with you [...]
Society Elects New President
CHICAGO – The International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section (IBS-ELS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer M. McBride, Associate Dean of the Doctor of Ministry Programs and Continuing Education and Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at McCormick Theological Seminary, has been elected president of the Society, becoming its first female president since [...]
The Bonhoeffer Reader
For the first time, a representative collection of all Bonhoeffer’s theological works is available in a single volume, edited by Bonhoeffer scholars Clifford J. Green and Michael P. DeJonge. The Bonhoeffer Reader follows on the heels of the newly completed 16-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition (DBWE), a major 25-year translation project supported by the International Bonhoeffer [...]
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Beeson Student David Dockery Reflects on Beeson’s “Finkenwalde Day”
On September 15, Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., hosted its first and only Finkenwalde Day. Finkenwalde Day came a month into Beeson Divinity’s fall semester theme, “Finkenwalde: In the School of Bonhoeffer,” a focus on German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s vision of theological education. Finkenwalde was a town in Nazi Germany that [...]