The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Hardcover

Best, Isabel; Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0800699041 ISBN 13: 9780800699048

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2012

Synopsis

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to a child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as a gift depends on whether the hearer is in a position to do so. Offered here are thirty-one of Pastor Bonhoeffer's sermons, in new English translations, which he preached at various times of the year and in a variety of different settings. Each is introduced by Bonhoeffer translator Isabel Best, who also provides a brief biography of Bonhoeffer. The foreword is by Victoria J. Barnett, general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, published by Fortress Press, from which these sermons are selected.

In his preaching, Bonhoeffer's strong, personal faith the foundation for everything he did shines in the darkness of Hitler's Third Reich and in the churches' struggle against it. Though not overtly political, Bonhoeffer' s deep concern for the developments in his world is revealed in his sermons as he seeks to draw the listener into conversation with the promises and claims of the gospel a conversation readers today are invited to join.

About this title

About the Author:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 1945) was a German pastor and theologian whose striking theological journey and public witness against the Nazi regime led to worldwide fame after his death in 1945.

Isabel Best has contributed translations to a number of volumes in the English language series of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works published by Fortress Press, including Letters and Papers from Prison, Vol. 8 (2009), Berlin: 1932-1933, Vol. 12 (2009), London, 1933" 1935, Vol. 13 (2007), and Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931" 1932, Vol. 11 (2012). She is also the translator of Ferdinand Schlingensiepen's Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906- 1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance (2010).

Review:

"‘Bonhoeffer loved to preach,’ said his friend and biographer Eberhard Bethge. Here, for the first time in English, is a choice collection of Bonhoeffer's sermons. At once scriptural and engaging the reader personally, the sermons also address public issues faced by those trying to live as Christians in the Third Reich. The enduring freshness and pertinence of the word of God in these human words will challenge and comfort readers now as then." --Clifford Green, Executive Director, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0800699041
• ISBN 13: 9780800699048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240