NO RUSTY SWORDS

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 19, 1965

This volume is the first in a two-volume edition of papers and of the late German theologian and Christian martyr. The contents are taking from the large four-volume collection of Bonhoeffer papers and edited by disciple, Eberhard Bethge. Editing and translation are by Robertson, of the British Bible Society, and John Bowden. The contents of this volume open with letter written by Bonhoeffer as a student to Adolph , and cont through his professorial Inaugural lecture, his letters and reports on the first visit to America (1930-31) as a graduate student at Union Theological Seminary, his return to Germany at the time Hitler came to power, and the early years of the mounting conflict between the German churches and Nazism, ending with the year 1935. Although the contents do not add a great deal of how to Bonhoeffer's major theological work, they do provide matter that the unfolding of his thought as the crisis in his country deepened.

Pub Date: May 19, 1965

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Publisher: Harper &

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION