In 1932 hield de 26-jarige Dietrich Bonhoeffer een collegereeks over het wezen van de kerk. Tegelijkertijd was hij beginnend predikant in een seculariserend Berlijn. In deze collegereeks, maar ook in lezingen en preken uit deze jaren komt hij tot verrassend actuele observaties over wat er met de kerk in zo'n tijd gebeurt. En hij geeft antwoorden op de vraag wat de kerk juist nu zou moeten zijn. Deze spannende teksten worden nu opnieuw ontsloten en toegelicht door Edward van 't Slot.
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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