Shaping the Future: The Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By James H. Burtness

With penetrating insight, James Burtness enters into dialogue with the great theologian and Christian martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose faith in God, despite having stood in the face of the Nazi nightmare, never wavered, and whose life in review, even though he was firmly rooted in the Lutheran tradition, has become a phenomenon that has grown out to reach all followers of Christ today. Burtness writes, "He was convinced that by 'taking hold of the real' those who know and follow Jesus Christ can, as his deputies, participate responsibly in the shaping of the future in line with God's own will."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800618696
• ISBN13: 9780800618698
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.