Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Book Overview

Night and silence. Only footsteps and shouts of the guards. Do you not hear it in this silenced house, shaking, breaking, and collapsing, as hundreds kindle the glowing ember of their hearts? "When I was in prison, no writings encouraged me more than Bonhoeffer's." --Chuck Colson Here in one volume are all ten of the dramatic poems that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote during his confinement in Prison on charges of conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems is the stirring, deeply personal manifesto of one of the twentieth century's best-known Christian writers and thinkers, whose short life and martyr's death raised a standard of faith that challenges, beckons, and guides us today. Also available Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310267048
• ISBN13: 9780310267041
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.4" x 0.6" x 5.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

A Poem of Christian Poetry that is simply Awsome!

If you like Diedrich's writings, you will like this one. It is his best work. Writing poetry from prison. On the life of Moses, Jonah, and other bible characters. Poems to his fiancee, and his best friend, about life and times in hitler's germany. This poem is a must get for any bible student or christian reader.

A Must Be Read

I was humbled by his devotion to God, Country, and humanity. I trembled with him when footsteps came in the night. Tears, Tears, Tears!

Enticing

A gem of a book that couples Bonhoeffers's poems with insightful commentery. Brings the time, place and sinificance of each verse into pellucidity.