Hermann cremer, 2 books alfred firmin loisy, 2 books e. I bought this book after having seen it mentioned in a biography of dietrich bonhoeffer. By his teenage years, his father, karl bonhoeffer, had become one of germanys most famous psychiatrists. Friedrich schleiermacher, the father of liberal theology, once served on the schools faculty. He was involved in plots planned by members of the abwehr the german military intelligence office to assassinate adolf hitler. Harnacks insights into the what of christianity from a scholarly, not a theological point of view from any denomination, surprises the reader with keen insights from that period. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. A large body of the book is dedicated to the mid 1930s where bonhoeffer is working to create a new church, the confessing church. One of these was dietrich bonhoeffera pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual classics as the cost of discipleship. His writings on christianitys role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book the cost of discipleship has been described as a modern classic. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Dietrich bonhoeffer, the internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Jesus christ and the essence of christianity cwoznicki.
Government church or not, they were no longer church. Far from being an evangelical, bonhoeffer was more liberal than barth. Dietrich bonhoeffers reflections on american theology. The great influence in his thinking was the swiss theologian karl barth who developed what became known as neoorthodox theology. This year brings the 65th anniversary of the nazi hanging of dietrich bonhoeffer for his attempt to overthrow adolf hitler, and that martyrdom is well knownbut metaxas illuminates, mile by mile, the road. In such seminal works as the history of dogma 188689. Aug 21, 2009 yesterday, i finished reading bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a on a rare occasion i get so involved in a book that it becomes real to me. Bonhoeffer earned his doctorate at berlin university in 1927 when he was 21. Dietrich bonhoeffers reflections on american theology seedbed. Yesterday, i lost a friend who i wont meet until eternity. Prayerbook of the bible is a classic meditation on the importance of the psalms for christian prayer.
Later he came under the influ ence of karl barths theology which, though he never went to his lectures or studied under him, left its mark on bonhoeffers first book, sanctorum com munio. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Dietrich bonhoeffer reading room links to writings by and on bonhoeffer maintained by arnold neufeldtfast, tyndale seminary 8. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. While bonhoeffer did not agree with many of harnacks conclusions, he respected his serious scholarship. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912 in which he is sometimes credited as adolf harnack. Harnack, at that time the director of the royal library in berlin, one of the founders of the. In such seminal works as the history of dogma 188689 and the history of ancient christian literature 18931904, harnack sought to demonstrate that the relevance of christianity to a modern. Harnack s insights into the what of christianity from a scholarly, not a theological point of view from any denomination, surprises the reader with keen insights from that period. Book from the collections of university of michigan language english. Dietrich bonhoeffer wikipedia city vision university. Harnack was born in 1851, in a lutheran family, as the older of a set of twins. Dietrich bonhoeffer boston collaborative encyclopedia of.
Harnack soon formed a very high opinion of his character and abilities. Dietrich bonhoeffer february 4, 1906 april 9, 1945 was a german lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the german resistance movement against nazism, and a founding member of the confessing church. His influential studies of early christianity and christian dogma called for a historicalcritical method, independent of metahistorical sources of. Bonhoeffer was born on 4 february 1906 in breslau, germany into a large family. This was quite informative and again interesting to understand how the german lutheran church is much more aligned with the state than anything we have in the us. Harnack was one of the first modern historians of dogma and historians of theology and he called for eliminating all of what he described as the artificial structure around the christian truth claim and getting to the.
Harnack dismissed biblical miracles as fictitious and denied canonicity for the gospel of john. True christianity the essence of christianity was found in the teachings of jesus, not. Not to say that bonhoeffer didnt have his own opinions on matters, because he clearly was on his own a lot in that regard, but i dont believe bonhoeffer. As much as it focuses on bonhoeffer s life and role in the plot to assassinate hitler, the book also sheds light on the political, social and spiritual climate that led to hitlers rise to power. Bonhoeffer was one of harnacks favourite students, and harnack was. If theology is polluted at its source, havoc will invariably follow in the church and the academy. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The bible, translated quite simply the ultimate book, narrates the most significant. Aug 29, 2011 bonhoeffer earned his doctorate at berlin university in 1927 when he was 21. Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy april 2010, thomas nelson, by eric metaxas. Life together is a classic which contains bonhoeffers meditation on the nature of christian community. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study.
Although subsequent scholarship has strongly challenged manyof his conclusions, the questions he raised remain central to muchtheological endeavor. The hopeless and desperate people of germany were looking for a savior. World magazine our runnerup for book of the year is bonhoeffer. See robinson, beginnings of dialectical theology, 165187. While a student in berlin in the early 1920s, bonhoeffer encountered barths writing. In may of 1924, bonhoeffer had just completed a year of theological studies at tubingen. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. After his mothers death in 1857, he became especially connected to his father, theodosius andreas harnack, who was a teacher of homiletics and church history at the lutheran university in dorpat a part of east prussia.
Apr 05, 2020 from 1923 to 1927 dietrich bonhoeffer studied theology at the universities of tubingen and berlin. In addition to his other siblings, dietrich had a twin sister, sabine bonhoeffer leibholz. In such seminal works as the history of dogma 188689 and the history of ancient christian literature 18931904, harnack sought to demonstrate that the relevance of christianity to a modern world lay not in theological. As adolf hitler and the nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the jews of europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the third reich from the inside.
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