In recent years, the field of Bonhoeffer studies has been dominated by debates about two biographies: Eric Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Charles Marsh’s Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.[2] While members of the popular media and Christian commentators have generally lauded these stylish works, historians of the period as well as many Bonhoeffer scholars [...]
Bonhoeffer’s Failed Blackness
https://vimeo.com/113870189 Dr. J. Kameron Carter presents the Swander Lecture: Bonhoeffer’s (Failed) Blackness from Lancaster Theological Seminary on Vimeo.
Volume 4: Discipleship
“Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace.” And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship). Originally published in 1937, it soon became a classic [...]
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Volume 10: Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1938-1931
The period 1928 to 1931, which followed the completion of his dissertation, was formative for Bonhoeffer’s personal and pastoral, and theological direction. Almost all of these nine hundred pages of writings appear in English here for the first time. They document the intense four-year period that included preparation of his postdoctoral thesis; a vicarage in [...]
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Volume 11: Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932
Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932, provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffer’s important writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance. This volume covers the significant period of Bonhoeffer’s entry into the international ecumenical world and the final months [...]
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