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I am Bonhoeffer : a credible life--a novel

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, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
Stott, Douglas W.
Description
352 pages; 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
  • Barz, Paul, 1943-2013
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
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
  • 0800662342
LCCN
2007047324
OCLC
  • ocn181424195
  • 181424195
  • SCSB-9523049
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library