Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 15

Victoria J. Barnett · Claudia D. Bergmann · Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Scott A. Moore

Nov 2011 · Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Book 15 · Fortress Press

About this ebook

With extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance, this volume of writings covers a crucial time and an understudied period of Bonhoeffer's life. It begins during the final period of his illegal work in training Confessing Church seminarians and concludes as he begins his activities in the German resistance. Bridging these two periods is his brief journey to the United States in summer 1939, when he pondered and ultimately rejected a move to the safety of exile. Bonhoeffer's writings from this transitional period, particularly his New York diary, offer a rare and more deeply personal picture of Bonhoeffer in a time of great inner turmoil.

About the author

Victoria J. Barnett served from 2004-2014 as one of the general editors of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the English translation series of Bonhoeffer's complete works published by Fortress Press. She has lectured and written extensively about the Holocaust, particularly about the role of the German churches. Her published works include Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (1999) and For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (1992). Since 2004 she has directed the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and George Mason University.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most significant Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, a legacy sealed by his imprisonment in a German concentration camp and eventual execution. His resistance against Nazism and pivotal role in the Confessing Church movement have been key points of illumination for many on the nature of Christian political witness and action. Millions have been inspired by his rich reflections on the Christian life, especially his beloved works on discipleship and ethics. As a professor, seminary leader, and ecumenical theologian, Bonhoeffer's work also profoundly shaped academic theology, especially systematic theology, and the life of the church.

Peter Frickis associate professor and academic dean at St. Paul"s University College, University of Waterloo. His main interest lies in the intersection of theology, philosophy and biblical studies. Frick"s recent books areA Handbook of New Testament Greek Grammar(2007) andA Dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Collected Essays(2009). He also editedBonhoeffer"s Intellectual Formation(2008),Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer(2010),Bonhoeffer and Interpretive Theory. Essays on Methods and Understanding(2013).Frick is a member of SBL, AAR, the international Bonhoeffer Society and a member of the editorial board that is responsible for the publication of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.