Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) by Martin E Marty - 2011-02

Princeton University Press, 2011-02-27. hardcover. Good. 5x1x8.

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Princeton. 2011. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691139210. Lives of Great Religious Books. 275 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph: Prison cell in Tegel. keywords: Religion Germany Lutheran History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. The posthumous Letters and Papers from Prison has had a tremendous impact on both Christian and secular thought since it was first published in 1951, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career, National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty tells how and why Letters and Papers from Prison has been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the cold war to today. In his late… Read More

Princeton University Press, February 2011. Hardcover. New.

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Hardback. New. A collection of letters that tantalizes questions about the role of Christianity and the church in an increasingly secular world. It provides a fresh perspective on religious and secular life in the postwar era.