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 [...]
The Rest of the Story: Bonhoeffer and Women
The Rest of the Story: Bonhoeffer and Women Diane Reynolds discusses her new book,The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Eugene, OR.: Wipf and Stock, 2016). Q. What is this book about? It’s a biography that focuses on the women in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Q. Why did you write it? I went to find a [...]
Volume 16: Conspiracy and Imprisonment, 1940-1945
This volume, published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer’s birth, documents Bonhoeffer’s life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany. In hundreds of letters, including ten never-before-published letters to his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer, as well as official documents, short original pieces, and a few final [...]
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Renate Bethge’s Recollections on the Bonhoeffer and Von Wedemeyer Families and Eberhard Bethge
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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