Teaching Bonhoeffer

Forthcoming Curriculum: Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA and IBS-ELS will offer “Lessons from Bonhoeffer” for Congregations and Communities

Curriculum Development Partnership Announced Press release from LAMPa, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania, April 9th, 2024: April 9th is the day the ELCA commemorates the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor-theologian who resisted the Nazi regime in Germany before and during WWII. For many, Bonhoeffer is an inspiration of faithful witness in [...]

Project Bonhoeffer – UK (Webinar Series: Bonhoeffer’s Legacy for Today) Videos Available Online

Project Bonhoeffer is a small UK-based organization. Set up in 2011, it was created to “inform and remind today’s Christians – young and not-so-young – of the challenges of discipleship that Dietrich Bonhoeffer addressed in his radical theology and in his Christian witness leading to his execution at the hands of the Nazis at the [...]

Bonhoeffer and the Future of Faith – An Online Class Open to All – by Homebrewed Christianity

Tripp Fuller, founder of Homebrewed Christianity, will be joined by Bonhoeffer scholars including Jeffrey C. Pugh, Reggie William, Jenny McBride, Andrew Root, Lori Brandt Hale, and Di Rayson for an online class: Bonhoeffer and the Future of Faith. Launched in May 2023. ONLINE CLASS! From Tripp Fuller: Why does a theologian like Dietrich Bonhoeffer still [...]

Texts to Introduce Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Texts and Resources for Introducing Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Students and Others ANTHOLOGIES Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Bonhoeffer Reader. Clifford J. Green and Michael DeJonge, eds. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Geffrey B. Kelly and E. Burton Nelson, eds. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1990. [...]

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: [...]

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