Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 11

Ecumenical, Academic, And Pastoral Work : 1931-1932 -- Letters And Documents -- Reports, Theological Studies, And Texts From The University Period. Reports On Ecumenical Work : Late 1931 ; Texts From Activities In Church And University : Winter Semester 1931-1932 ; Texts From University Lectures : Summer Semester 1932 ; Texts From Ecumenical Work : July-october 1932 ; Short Studies : 1932 -- Sermons And Meditations -- Editor's Afterword To The German Edition / Christoph Strohm. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; Translated From The German Edition, Edited By Eberhard Amelung And Christoph Strohm. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 507-557) And Indexes. "Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932, provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffer's important writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance. This volume covers the significant period of Bonhoeffer's entry into the international ecumenical world and the final months before the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship. It begins with Bonhoeffer's return to Berlin in June 1931 after his year of study in the United States. In the crucial period that followed, Bonhoeffer continued his preparations for the ministry, began teaching at Berlin University, and became active at international ecumenical meetings. His letters and lectures, however, also document the economic and political turbulence on the European and world stage, and Bonhoeffer directly addresses the growing threat of the Nazi movement and what it portends not only for Germany, but for the world. Several of the documents in this volume, particularly the student notes of his university lecture on "The Nature of the Church" and his lectures on Christian ethics, give important insights into his theology at this point. His ecumenical lectures and reports are significant documents for understanding the ecumenical debates of this period"--Publisher description The first of the chronological volumes in this acclaimed critical edition of Bonhoeffer's work gathers his one hundred earliest letters and journals from after the First World War through his graduation from Berlin University. It also contains his early theological writings up to his dissertation. These seventeen works include, for example, works on the patristic period for Adolf von Harnack, on Luther's moods for Karl Holl, on biblical interpretation for Professor Reinhold Seeberg, as well as essays on the church and eschatology, reason and revelation, Job, John, and even joy. Rounding out this picture of Bonhoeffer's nascent theology are his sermons from the period, along with his lectures on homiletics, catechesis, and practical theology.In translation for the first time, these writings show Bonhoeffer as pastor and theologian alert to his times and developing the formative themes of his religious worldview. Cover Title Contents Copyright General Editor’s Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Abbreviations Editors’ Introduction to the English Edition PART 1: Letters and Documents PART 2: Reports, Theological Studies, and Texts from the University Period PART 3: Sermons and Meditations Editor’s Afterword to the German Edition Appendices Bibliography Index of Scriptural References Index of Subjects Editors and Translators Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works series is the definitive English translation of the German editions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke--a comprehensive and thoroughly annotated sixteen-volume resource for the study of Bonhoeffer in the wider frame of twentieth-century thought and history. -- Provided by publisher