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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian dissident who took a stand against Nazism in the 1930s. He was executed at the Flossenburg concentration camp just before the end of the war on the charge of treason, but in truth he died for sheer love of his country and for his uncompromising commitment to the gospel. In response to what he regarded as the capitulation of the evangelical church to volk nationalism, Bonhoeffer helped establish the Confessing Church and, controversially, became implicated in an assassination plot against Hitler.
Encountering Bonhoffer takes the reader on a forty-day journey via some key passages from Bonhoeffer's extensive body of work--books, essays, letters, sermons, poems--in the hope that it will encourage not just personal reflection on themes in the gospel but also a deeper awareness of the church's mission in a time of political and global instability.
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Christian TheologyTable of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Day 1. Cheap Grace Versus Costly Grace
- Day 2. The Danger of Visionary Dreamers
- Day 3. Beginning the Day in the Presence of God
- Day 4. On Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously
- Day 5. Striving for Sainthood
- Day 6. The Psalms of Jesus
- Day 7. The Tension of Community and Aloneness
- Day 8. Tenderness Toward a Young Minister
- Day 9. The Priority of Listening
- Day 10. Freely Chosen Friendship
- Day 11. Wresting the Steering Wheel from a Madman
- Day 12. Quality Versus Quantity
- Day 13. A Fellowship of the Heart
- Day 14. True Patriotism
- Day 15. The Superiority of Petitionary Prayer
- Day 16. On Not Saying Much That Occurs to Us
- Day 17. Can a Christian Lie?
- Day 18. Love and Marriage
- Day 19. The Text Has More than Enough Thoughts
- Day 20. The True Meaning of Christmas
- Day 21. Or Don’t You Believe in God?
- Day 22. The Church and the Academy
- Day 23. Cantus Firmus
- Day 24. The Dangers of Youth Specialisms
- Day 25. Who Am I?
- Day 26. Christ Builds the Church
- Day 27. The Power of Confessing to a Brother
- Day 28. Taking up the Cross
- Day 29. On Sometimes Holding Back from Ultimate Truths
- Day 30. The New Monasticism
- Day 31. Final Words
- Day 32. Waiting for the Word
- Day 33. A Space of Faith
- Day 34. A Herald of Good News
- Day 35. A “Beyond All That” Righteousness
- Day 36. The Defiance of the Elderly
- Day 37. To Obey Is Better Than Influence
- Day 38. Unconscious Christianity
- Day 39. Resurrection Not Springtime Renewal
- Day 40. The Early Morning Belongs to the Church of the Risen Christ
- Afterword
- The Unlikely Friendship of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Bishop George Bell
- Appendix 1. Bonhoeffer and the Bomb Plot
- Appendix 2. The Discipline of the Secret
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