Dietrich Bonhoeffer After Ten Years

Dietrich bonhoeffer s epideictic exhortation to responsible action.

Dietrich bonhoeffer after ten years. Bonhoeffer s witness and example is more relevant than ever. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon time we have lost. The section entitled immanent justice is one of the most profound parts of the whole piece and it begs to be expanded. Time is the most precious gift in our possession for it is the most irrevocable.

After ten years is a succinct and sober reflection and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the german people under national socialism. After ten years was written for dohnanyi bonhoeffer s close 2. In december 1942 bonhoeffer sent a christmas letter after ten years to his closest friends in the resistance. Barnett reviewed by eileen quinn knight ph d.

In dietrich bonhoeffer works english edition volume 12. In a bitterly realistic tone he faced the prospect that they might fail and that his own life s work might remain incomplete. Barnett s new introduction to this seminal bonhoeffer text helps readers understand it better in its own context and in the context of our own troubled times. After ten years text by victoria barnett.

In his set of mini essays entitled after ten years written in 1942 bonhoeffer reflects on the lessons learned in a decade of active resistance to hitler. Edited by victoria h. This brief new work elevates dietrich bonhoeffer s after ten years essay to the central place in the bonhoeffer canon that it deserves. Fortress press 2009 94.

In december 1942 bonhoeffer sent a christmas letter after ten years to his closest friends in the resistance. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by bonhoeffer in 1942. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavour enjoyment and suffering. In dietrich bonhoeffer theological education underground.

It was this reading that made me realize i am joyfully and gladly a follower of christ and wish others to have the same joy. One of the most moving books in my life is the cost of discipleship. The editor of this essay has also a love of bonhoeffer. Ten years is a long stretch in a man s life.

Letter of february 6 1933.