Statements – Fall 2024 Bonhoeffer Scholars’ Statement, October 2024: LINK Bonhoeffer Scholars’ Statement, October 2024: PDF Bonhoeffer Family Statement, October 2024: PDF Actors’ (Bonhoeffer Film) Statement, November 2024: PDF Movie Reviews – Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. Werntz, “‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality,” November 2024: LINK Werntz, “‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality,” November 2024: [...]
Bonhoeffer Documentaries and Films
By Journey Films Documentary: Bonhoeffer (90 minutes) Doblmeier, Martin, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt, Richard Mancini, John Keltonic, Journey Films, First-Run Features (Firm), and South Carolina Educational Television Network, dirs. 2003. Bonhoeffer. First Run Features. Learn More and Watch Released in 1984 Documentary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives (90 minutes) Drake, Gerald. 2006 (DVD). Dietrich Bonhoeffer: [...]
New Documentary: “The Cloud of Witnesses: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem 1930/31” to premiere in Düsseldorf, Germany on October 10th, 2024. A film by Hellmut Schlingensiepen and Reggie Williams.
German filmmaker Hellmut Schlingensiepen and American theologian, Reggie L. Williams, will premiere the German version of their documentary, “The Cloud of Witnesses: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem 1930/31,” in Germany on October 10th, 2024. For more information about the film, including a list of conversation partners, visit the film’s website. More Information – The Cloud of [...]
Now Available for Download! An Interactive Multi-Week Bonhoeffer Curriculum by Lori Brandt Hale for Congregations and Communities, Created in Partnership with Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania
Learn More and Download the Curriculum About the curriculum: The curriculum is designed to take 4-6 weeks to complete, includes lesson plans, slides, facilitator scripts, and handouts. Each week also contains an activity and/or discussion questions. The lessons build on one another and should be done in order. Lessons 1-4 offer a complete program. Lesson [...]
RESCHEDULED for March 7-8, 2025. “Hope in a Divided World: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s This-Worldly Christianity as an Antidote to Christian Nationalism.” A two-day event at United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. In-person and online.
United Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg, PA Learn More & Register Author’s Reception and Dinner A happy-hour reception at the Seminary Ridge Museum and dinner at United Lutheran Seminary will be a chance to meet with Dr. Brandt Hale, author of the Bonhoeffer Curriculum, see the museum, and hear a brief talk on the unfinished work of [...]
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Bonhoeffer in North America,
Christology, Bonhoeffer and Political Life,
Community and Witness,
Ethics,
Featured,
Political Life and Theology, Readings and Receptions,
Readings and Receptions,
Religionless Christianity,
Social Ethics
Amy Reumann, Greg Carey, Lori Brandt Hale, Martin Otto-Zimmann, Teresa Smallwood