Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Called by GodBloomsbury Publishing USA, 3 сент. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 192 Nazi Germany produced an unusual group of Christian martyrs--among them, the nun philosopher Edith Stein, the mystical philosopher Simone Weil, and the peasant conscientious objector Hans JSgerstatter--but perhaps none so complex as the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Born into a large upper-middle-class, professional family that was not particularly devout or observant (his father was one of the leading psychiatrists in Germany), Dietrich early in life decided he wanted to be a Christian theologian. Yet his family background and connections insured that he wouldn't be one in the narrow mold of so many of his colleagues. Opportunities for travel-to Spain, North Africa. Mexico, Cuba, America (twice), and England (often)-gave him a broad horizon of possibilities. The greatest thing about America for him was his experiences in Harlem and his friendships with African Americans. His great regret was that he missed an opportunity to travel to India to meet Gandhi. He was one of the few German churchmen who spoke forthrightly against the persecution of Jews as Jews and not merely of Christians of Jewish descent. (How much of this was due to his beloved, 90-year-old grandmother Sophie, who defied the Nazi ban on shopping in Jewish stores? "I buy the things I need where I like.") His family connections drew him into a dangerous double game. His "employment" as a member of the Counterintelligence Office of the High Command of the Armed Forces enabled him to continue work as a pastor and seminary director. It allowed him to travel abroad, where he worked for a negotiated peace. And it eventually drew him into the plot to kill Hitler-an ethical stand which many German Christians of his generation couldn't understand or forgive. He was executed on 9 April 1945, three weeks before Hitler committed suicide. He was thirty-nine years old.The life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been told at great length and in magnificent detail by his younger colleague, Eberhard Bethge. It's a biography that will never be surpassed but which only the most devoted will have the perseverance to read. Elizabeth Raum has retold the story concisely and readably for a whole new generation of readers. |
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CHAPTER 4 University Days 19231927 | 30 |
1928 | 39 |
1930 | 44 |
19311932 | 49 |
19381939 | 110 |
19391941 | 117 |
19411943 | 125 |
1943 | 132 |
19431944 | 137 |
19441945 | 146 |
Beyond 1945 | 151 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS | 157 |
1933 | 59 |
19331934 | 69 |
19331935 | 78 |
19351936 | 86 |
19361937 | 95 |
19371938 | 104 |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN DIETRICH BONHOEFFERS LIFE | 161 |
GLOSSARY | 164 |
NOTES | 167 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES CITED OR CONSULTED | 174 |
INDEX | 181 |
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Стр. 140 - It always seems to me that we are trying anxiously in this way to reserve some space for God; I should like to speak of God not on the boundaries but at the centre, not in weaknesses but in strength; and therefore not in death and guilt but in man's life and goodness. As to the boundaries, it seems to me better to be silent and leave the insoluble unsolved. Belief in the resurrection is not the "solution
Стр. 121 - We are not Christ, but if we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ's large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear, but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer.
Стр. 140 - Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house. Who am I? They often tell me I would talk to my warders freely and friendly and clearly, as though it were mine to command. Who am I? They also tell me I would bear the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly...
Стр. 116 - I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.
Стр. 66 - Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's.
Стр. 111 - Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword
Стр. 122 - We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use?
Стр. 115 - Now I want to assure you that I haven't for a moment regretted coming back in 1939 - nor any of the consequences, either. I knew quite well what I was doing, and I acted with a clear conscience. I've no wish to cross out of my life anything that has happened since, either to me personally (would I have got engaged otherwise?
Стр. 54 - I have felt this plainly, and so have other people about me. It was a great liberation. It became clear to me that the life of a servant of Jesus Christ must belong to the church, and step by step it became clearer to me how far that must go.