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Book cover image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eberhard Bethge

Authors: Eberhard Bethge, Victoria J. Barnett (Editor), Clifford J. Green
ISBN-13: 9780800628444, ISBN-10: 0800628446
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: REVISED

Author Biography: Eberhard Bethge

Book Synopsis

	Foreword
	Preface to the First English Edition
	Portrait
	Abbreviations
Pt. 1	The Lure of Theology
1	Childhood and Youth: 1906-1923	3
	Ancestors	3
	Parents' Home in Breslau	13
	Berlin	21
	The Decision to Become a Theologian	34
2	Student Years: 1923-1927	45
	Family	45
	Tubingen	47
	Rome	56
	Berlin	65
	Dissertation	77
	Seminar Essays	85
	First Ties to a Regional Church	91
3	Assistant Pastor in Barcelona: 1928	97
	Selecting a Post as Vicar	98
	The Country	100
	The Parish	105
	Plans for the Future	120
4	Assistant Lecturer in Berlin: 1929-1930	125
	Postdoctoral Work	128
	Family and Friends	137
	American Plans	142
5	America: 1930-1931	147
	The Country	148
	Friends	152
	Union Theological Seminary	156
	The Return Home	166
Pt. 2	The Cost of Being a Christian
6	Lecturer and Pastor: 1931-1932	173
	Bonn	175
	Catechism	186
	Cambridge	189
	The Transition from Theologian to Christian	202
	The University	207
	The Church	221
	Ecumenism	238
7	Berlin: 1933	257
	February: Controlled Chaos	259
	March: Hitler's Laws	263
	April: The German Christians	268
	May: The Young Reformation Movement	279
	June: The State Commissar	283
	July: Church Elections	293
	August: The Bethel Confession	300
	September: The Aryan Clause	304
8	London: 1933-1935	325
	Parish Minister	328
	First Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1933-1934	334
	George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester	354
	Fano	372
	Second Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1934-1935	392
	Plans	406
9	Preachers' Seminary: 1935	419
	The Seminaries	419
	Zingst and Finkenwalde	424
	The Syllabus	441
	The House of Brethren	460
	The Ecumenical World	472
	The Steglitz Resolutions	486
10	Finkenwalde: 1936-1937	493
	The Fifth Implementation Decree	495
	The Journey to Sweden	506
	The Essay on Church-Community	517
	The Memorandum to Hitler	531
	"Service to Others"	539
	Chamby, 1936	546
	The Last Year in Finkenwalde	561
	The End of Finkenwalde	577
11	The Collective Pastorates: 1938-1940	587
	The Backwoods of Pomerania	588
	The Low Point of the Church Struggle	596
	Legalization	607
	The Lure of the Political Realm	620
	England; March and April 1939	635
	America: June and July 1939	648
	The War	662
	Christian and Man for His Times	676
Pt. 3	Sharing Germany's Destiny
12	Travels: 1940-1943	681
Sect. 1	The Church	686
	The Confessing Church during the War	686
	Professional Problems	695
	Theology	705
Sect. 2	The Conspiracy	722
	The First Stage: Information, Spring 1941	724
	The Second Stage: Peace Aims, Autumn 1941	734
	The Third Stage: Information on the Coup, 1942	752
	The Arrest	780
	The Engagement	787
	The "Borderline Case"	791
13	Tegel: 1943-1944	799
	The Trial of Hans von Dohnanyi	800
	The Investigation of Bonhoeffer	810
	The Cell in Tegel	828
	The New Theology	853
14	In the Custody of the State: 1944-1945	893
	Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse	894
	Buchenwald	918
	Flossenburg	921
	The Bitter End	928
App. 1	The Zossen Files	935
App. 2	Bonhoeffer's Readings in Prison	943
	Notes	947
	Chronology	1025
	Index	1029