'Brevier' is een populaire verzameling teksten uit Dietrich Bonhoeffers brieven, preken en geschriften, geordend naar thema en verdeeld over alle dagen van het kerkelijk jaar. De samensteller koos die gedeelten die zich lenen voor overweging. Hij ensceneert korte ontmoetingen met Bonhoeffer de gelovige, de zoeker, de pastor en ideale gesprekspartner, die nooit inbreuk maakt op de vrijheid van de ander. De vrije stijl van mediteren tilt dit brevier ver uit boven alle vroomheidsboeken.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war's end.
Overshadowed by his life and death, his theology and his view of Christianity's role in the secular world has nevertheless remained very influential.
He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the Gospels.
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