Berlin, 1932-1933
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; translated from the German edition edited by Hans Goedeking, Martin Heimbucher, and Hans-Walter Schleicher ; English edition edited by Larry L. Rasmussen ; translated by Isabel Best and David Higgins ; supplementary material translated by Douglas W. Stott
Contributors: Rasmussen, Larry L.; Best, Isabel; Higgins, David Warren Simons
Series: Dietrich Bonhoeffer works -- v. 12
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780800683122
Work titles: Berlin, 1932-1933
Description: "Then came the crisis of 1933." This is Bonhoeffer's own phrase in a letter that documents a turning point in his own life as well as that of the nation. Of Bonhoeffer's own life at this time, his biographer writes, "The period of learning and roaming" from 1928 until 1931 "had come to an end" as the young lecturer, age 26, began to teach "on a faculty whose theology he did not share" and to preach "in a church whose self-confidence he regarded as unfounded." Bonhoeffer was becoming part of a society "that was moving toward political, social, and economic chaos." Events moved quickly at the onset of 1933 in Berlin. In only one hundred days the path was cleared by the German Parliament and the Nazi Party for the establishment of the fascist dictatorship. These one hundred days, as well as the preceding and succeeding months, are reflected in the materials in this volume: in letters, in sermons, in Bonhoeffer's university teaching, in manifestos and a church confession, and in his proactive engagement in the developing church struggle. The vast majority of these are translated here for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.