Who Is Christ for Us?

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Craig L. Nessan, Renate Wind

Book Overview

In the summer of 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer delivered powerful lectures that insisted Christians encounter Jesus Christ as a living person today, as well as in history and church life. Formulated in the face of the new Nazi regime, a decisive moment in Bonhoeffer's own commitment to the Confessing Church, his words drew attention to the living Christ as always the humiliated "man for others," the lodestar of Christian commitment and service. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800634802
• ISBN13: 9780800634803
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Who is Christ in Your Life?

Do we ever ask the question about who Christ really is for us? Dietrich Bonhoeffer constantly asked this question through out his life. In John 21, Jesus tells Peter how later on in his life he will go places where he would not want to be. The circumstances of Bonhoeffer's life during the Nazi era lead him to experience this most fully. Christ was guiding him to speak the truth to a world caught up in a big lie.