Bonhoeffer: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

by John W. Matthews

Book Overview

Dietrich Bonhoeffer s life spanned four decades of the early twentieth century and was shaped within the crucible of two European wars and an economic depression. Born in 1906 and raised in an upper middle class German family, he was educated to be a pastor, further trained as a theologian, involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and was finally hanged by the Nazis only days before the end of World War II. His life story is more than one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193268865X
• ISBN13: 9781932688658
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Lutheran University Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"