Bonhoeffer's story seems as vitally relevant, as politically prophetic, and as theologically significant today, as it did yesterday. Bonhoeffers fragments from prison are some of the few bits of thought which have caused real theological excitement and bewilderment in recent years. A prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent, he said. Letters from Bonhoeffer's parents, siblings, and other relatives have also been added, in addition to previously inaccessible letters and legal papers referring to his trial.Īcute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. O n November 21, 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from Tegel Prison. His letters appear in greater detail and show his daily concerns. This expanded version of Letters and Papers from Prison shifts the emphasis of earlier editions of Bonhoeffer's theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential his 1937. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the "officers' plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( German: dit bnhf ( listen) 4 February 1906 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti- Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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