Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life
A life found and lost"All over the world people who are trying to find meaning and joy in life, despite the disorder of the world, are listening attentively to what (Bonhoeffer) says, because he was granted the great opportunity of confirming his message through his life and death."—W. A. Visser t'Hooft"The prophets still walk among us...The way of Dietrich, which led him from the university into the Confessing Church and then into the Resistance, was undoubtedly a prophetic way."—Gaetano LatmiralNearly sixty years after his death in a concentration camp, the life, thought, and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) continue to attract and engage Christians around the world. In this helpful picture of Bonhoeffer's life, his niece Renate Bethge sketches the familial roots and development of Bonhoeffer's convictions, his tireless work in the Nazi period for a church of resistance, and his fateful involvement in a plot to stop the Nazi regime."Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the one German theologian who will lead us into the third millnnium."—Dorothee Soelle