A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, yet his courage, vision, and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling classic, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer profoundly shaped such minds and movements as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leonardo Boff, civil rights and leberation theology.

A Testament to Freedom, completely revised and expanded for this edition, includes previously untranslated writings, excerpts from major books, sermons, and selected letters spanning the years of Bonhoeffer's pastoral and theological career. This magnificent volume takes readers on a historical and biographical journey that follows Bonhoeffer through the various stages of his life--as teacher, ecumenist, pastor, preacher, seminary director, prophet in the Nazi era and, finally, as martyr in pursuit of peace and justice.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 08/11/2009
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.16w x 1.56d
ISBN13: 9780060642143
ISBN10: 0060642149
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Religion | Theology
- Religion | Christianity | General