In 'Geborgen en getroost' vind je alle gedichten en een aantal gebeden van Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Zij zijn geschreven of in gevangenschap die zou uitlopen op zijn dood, of in tijden van aanvechting voorafgaande aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De wijze waarop Bonhoeffer zijn diepste gedachten over zichzelf, zijn vrienden, zijn medegevangenen, de kerk en de toekomst in de vorm van gedichten en gebeden heeft gegoten, is klassiek geworden. Nog steeds bieden deze teksten stof tot meditatie, troost en bemoediging.
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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