The reluctant revolutionary : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's collision with Prusso-German history /

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Pr...

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Main Author: Moses, John A. (John Anthony), 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • The "peculiarity" of German political culture
  • Bonhoeffer's formation
  • The problem of anti-semitism in Germany from Luther to Hitler
  • Bonhoeffer's opening to the west and the involvement in ecumenism
  • The church struggle to 1937
  • The ethics of conspiracy
  • Bonhoeffer and the Jewish question
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer as critic of his class in retrospect
  • The post-war confrontation with the Nazi past.