Strange Glory
Subtitle: a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780307269812
Description: A portrait of the German pastor-theologian draws on new research to cover the 1930 visit to America that shaped his perspectives on faith and moral responsibility, his achievements as an anti-Nazi activist, and the plot against Hitler that would result in his execution.
Notes: Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography. Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
Table of contents: title: Eternity's child; title: "Italy is simply inexhaustible"; title: University studies; title: "Greetings from the matador"; title: "Covered in the moss of tradition"; title: "I heard the gospel preached in the Negro churches"; title: "Under the constraint of grace"; title: Theological storm troopers on the march; title: Crying in the wilderness; title: "A new kind of monasticism"; title: "I must be a sojourner and a stranger"; title: "Christmas amid the ruins"; title: Killing the madman; title: "The greatest of feasts on the journey to freedom"