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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison: a Biography . By
Author(s) -
Shelley John C.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
religious studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1748-0922
pISSN - 0319-485X
DOI - 10.1111/rsr.12029_22
Subject(s) - biography , prison , citation , history , theology , classics , art history , philosophy , library science , computer science , archaeology
When first published in 1951 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison was a slender volume of two hundred pages with an uncertain future. Its editor, Eberhard Bethge, a German Lutheran pastor and close friend of Bonhoeffer’s, had yet to become well known as his biographer and interpreter. Now, as volume 8 of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Letters and Papers from Prison is considerably larger, thoroughly revised, freshly translated, and includes a great deal of previously unpublished material. Letters and Papers from Prison has become a twentieth-century Christian classic that has attracted the interest of a wide circle of readers in many countries. It is also an essential text for anyone interested in understanding Bonhoeffer and the relevance of his legacy today. More specifically, Letters and Papers from Prison