Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer::Gerhard Ludwig Muller::Hans-Richard Reuter::Geffrey B. Kelly::Wayne Whitson, Jr. Floyd
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Dewey Decimal Number: 230.044
Publication Date: 1996-05
Reading Level: 237
Description: Written in 1929-1930 a Dietrich Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, this book deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology fro the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor."
Description: Bonhoeffer says spiritual care is a function of the congregation and that it is an aspect of the broader, more encompassing activity of proclamation. In Spiritual Care, we are confronted with the awesome truth that in speech God's presence is known and that speech is also our own; in silence God's presence is known and that silence is also our own. The text demands us to consider how the gospel message is brought to people in the midst of their personal lives, and his message and counsel use the tools given within the traditional life of the church so that such grace becomes enacted, enfleshed, and incarnate in the Christian community.
A beautifully crafted book with Easter meditations, this title is set in a quiet type and enriched by ten full-color reproductions of classic paintings. The cross and the resurrection—suffering and defeat of death—were central themes in the writings and in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945.
Description: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - theologian, pastor, martyr - is one of the most significant Christian witnesses of the twentieth century. His writings challenge us to address the presence of God in the world and history. His courageous resistance against Hitler, his imprisonment and execution dramatize "the cost of discipleship." These selections, with a poignant introduction by Robert Coles, provide a penetrating entry to the heart of Bonhoeffer's message.
