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Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940: v. 15 Translation Edition
Author(s): Victoria J. Barnett (Author), Claudia D. Bergmann (Author), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Dietrich Bonhoeffer Author (Author), Peter Frick (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2011
- Edition: Translation
- Language: English
- Print length: 750 pages
- ISBN-10: 0800698150
- ISBN-13: 9780800698157
Book Description
With extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance, this volume of writings covers a crucial time and an understudied period of Bonhoeffer’s life. It begins during the final period of his illegal work in training Confessing Church seminarians and concludes as he begins his activities in the German resistance. Bridging these two periods is his brief journey to the United States in summer 1939, when he pondered and ultimately rejected a move to the safety of exile. Bonhoeffer’s writings from this transitional period, particularly his New York diary, offer a rare and more deeply personal picture of Bonhoeffer in a time of great inner turmoil.
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About the Author
Victoria J. Barnett served from 2004-2014 as one of the general editors of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the English translation series of Bonhoeffer’s complete works published by Fortress Press. She has lectured and written extensively about the Holocaust, particularly about the role of the German churches. Her published works include Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (1999) and For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (1992). Since 2004 she has directed the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and George Mason University.
