Wind – Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a spoke in the wheel

CELC

230.044W

Personal Author:

Wind, Renate

Title:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:  a spoke in the wheel / Renate Wind.  Translated by John Bowden

Publication info:

Grand Rapids MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., c1990

Physical description:

ix. Bib. (pp.181-182); Chron. Table (pp.vii-viii)

Summary:

Containing material never before published in English, this new biography paints a memorable portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945. Portraying the complexity of Bonhoeffer’s personality and the difficult, lonely course his life took, Wind especially brings out Bonhoeffer’s early realization of the horror of Nazi treatment of the Jews, and despite misunderstanding by fellow church members, his brave involvement in the resistance against Hitler, his resolve to become “a spoke in the wheel.”

Subject term:

Theologians & Religious Scholars – Biography

Subject term:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Biography, Theologian

ISBN:

0802806325

Tags:

Biography, Christian, Christian biography, Germany, History, Religion, Theologian