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I am Bonhoeffer : a credible life--a novel / Paul Barz ; translated by Douglas W. Stott.
- Title
- I am Bonhoeffer : a credible life--a novel / Paul Barz ; translated by Douglas W. Stott.
- Author
- Barz, Paul, 1943-2013
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | PT2662.A7347 I3513 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Stott, Douglas W.
- Description
- 352 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "On April 5, 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, was arrested in his parents' home and taken to Tegel prison in Berlin. In the isolation and loneliness of his cell, he composed his now-famous poem, "Who Am I?" Now Paul Barz has composed a novel that envisions Bonhoeffer looking back from his cell over the fateful trajectory that brought him to prison - and later, trial and hanging. Fully engrossing, Barz's narrative imagines Bonhoeffer's looking back to his childhood and family; his education and turn to theology and ministry; his travels to Spain, America, and London; his leadership of the underground seminary at Finkenwalde; his growing opposition to the Third Reich; and his decisive involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler." "Deeply informed by historical study and with a keen sense of the times, I Am Bonhoeffer offers us sympathetic glimpses of the choices and circumstances in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his family and friends struggled for freedom and authenticity."--book jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Ich bin Bonhoeffer. English
- Alternative Title
- Ich bin Bonhoeffer.
- Subject
- Barz, Paul, 1943-2013 > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 343) and index.
- Contents
- A little prince : 1912-1924 -- What makes the church a church? : 1924-1929 -- The new world--a new world : 1930/1931 -- Leader and seducer : 1931-1933 -- The church must remain the church! : 1933 -- Christian--or National Socialist : 1933/1934 -- I want to be a saint : 1935-1937 -- No time for saints : 1938-1939 -- Invitation to a tightrope act : 1940 -- Silent witnesses to evil deeds : 1941/1942 -- Are we still of any use? : 1942/1943 -- Are you Bonhoeffer? : 1948.
- ISBN
- 9780800662349 (alk. paper)
- 0800662342 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007047324
- OCLC
- 181424195
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library