Letter and Papers from Prison
 

Letter and Papers from Prison

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis after incarceration in Tegel Prison. Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Now... (read more)

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Bonhoffer was faced with the horror that Hitler could be the antichrist and had to choose how to thus respond. He eventually decided to throw off his conscientious pacifism idealism and face evil, partaking in the plot to assasinate "Mein Fuhrer." After being thrown into a concentration camp he again had to face his faith in the midst of horror and suffering, growing from it, and, in the end dying a Christ-like sacrifical death. Truly, like C.S. Lewis, he was one of our intellectual...

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