Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1 From Breslau to Berlin, 1906-1923 1
Family Influences 1
Childhood and Youth in Berlin 3
The Decision to Study Theology 4
Chapter 2 The Return from Tubingen to Berlin, 1923-1927 7
Two Semesters at Tübingen 7
A Journey to Italy 8
Theological Berlin 9
The Community of Saints 10
"What Is Better: School or Vacation?" 12
Chapter 3 Wider Horizons, 1928-1931 13
Bonhoeffer's Time as Vicar in Barcelona 13
Assistantship in Berlin 18
A Student in New York 19
Chapter 4 Beginnings, 1931-1932 25
Bonhoeffer's Encounter with Karl Barth 25
First Ecumenical Engagement 26
First Pastorate 28
First Lectures at the University 30
"For the First Time, I Came to the Bible" 33
Chapter 5 The Beginning Church Struggle, 1933 35
Hitler Takes Power 35
The Situation of the Church 36
Chapter 6 Pastor in London, 1933-1935 45
The "Calm of the Parish Ministry" 45
"The Disloyal Clergy Abroad" 47
Bonhoeffer's Peace Speech in Fanø 49
Return to Germany 52
Chapter 7 Director of a Preachers' Seminary, 1935-1937 55
Brotherly Life 55
Discipleship 60
Pressures on the Confessing Church 64
Chapter 8 The Path into Illegality, 1937-1940 69
The New Form of Seminary 69
Life Together 71
The Crisis of the Confessing Church 73
A Way Out in the United States? 77
Chapter 9 The Conspiracy Period, 1940-1943 81
Preparations for a Coup 81
Ethics 83
"Dear Miss von Wedemeyer" 88
Chapter 10 Prisoner in Tegel, 1943-1945 93
Locked Up 93
Resistance and Submission 97
Love Letters from Cell 92 105
The Final Months 110
Epilogue: A Modern Saint? 111
The Reception of BonhoefFer after 1945 111
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Today 118
Chronology 123
Bibliography 131
Index 135
