Meditating on the Word

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Overview

“Daily, quiet reflection on the Word of God as it applies to me becomes for me a point of crystallization for everything that gives interior and exterior order to my life,” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his colleagues at the warfront in the winter of 1942. Now back in print after a decade, this collection of Bonhoeffer’s writings, sermons, and letters on meditation—including his unfinished meditation on Psalm 119—reveals his deep love for the Bible as a focus for his prayer life and a support in his courageous political life. “Why do I meditate?” asks Bonhoeffer. “Because I am a Christian. Therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God’s Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561011841
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/25/1986
Series:	The New Church's Teaching Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER was a Lutheran pastor in the German Confessing Church during the Nazi years under Adolf Hitler. Books like The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, and Letters and Papers from Prison reveal the depths of his immersion in Scripture and how it called him to work against tyranny and political injustice. In 1945, at the age of thirty-nine, Bonhoeffer was executed for his role in the plot to assassinate Hitler. DAVID McI. GRACIE is an Episcopal priest who has served as a college chaplain at Temple University and a staff officer at the American Friends Service committee. He is currently on the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

These meditations are for a time when the balance between social action and evangelical piety is in danger of being lost-which is to say, they are for always.” —Currents In Theology and Mission

“Bonhoeffer's meditations . . . are of great value, for they disclose the workings of Bonhoeffer's mind and spirit in regard to everyday activities such as sermon writing, letters to friends and students, and instructions to seminarians on meditation and how to read the Bible.” —Choice Reviews

“This new edition of Meditating on the Word, along with books like Life Together and Discipleship, makes the practice of biblical meditation, which was so important to Bonhoeffer, available for study by congregations in an attractive and modestly priced volume.” —The Bonhoeffer Society Newsletter

From the Publisher

Bonhoeffer’s meditations. .. are of great value, for they disclose the workings of Bonhoeffer’s mind and spirit in regard to everyday activities such as sermon writing, letters to friends and students, and instructions to seminarians on meditation and how to read the Bible.

Choice Reviews

These meditations are for a time when the balance between social action and evangelical piety is in danger of being lost—which is to say, they are for always.

Currents In Theology and Mission

This new edition of Meditating on the Word, along with books like Life Together and Discipleship, makes the practice of biblical meditation, which was so important to Bonhoeffer, available for study by congregations in an attractive and modestly priced volume.

The Bonhoeffer Society Newsletter

Bonhoeffer’s meditations. .. are of great value, for they disclose the workings of Bonhoeffer’s mind and spirit in regard to everyday activities such as sermon writing, letters to friends and students, and instructions to seminarians on meditation and how to read the Bible.

Choice

Bonhoeffer’s meditations . . . are of great value, for they disclose the workings of Bonhoeffer’s mind and spirit in regard to everyday activities such as sermon writing, letters to friends and students, and instructions to seminarians on meditation and how to read the Bible.

CHOICE

These meditations are for a time when the balance between social action and evangelical piety is in danger of being lost--which is to say, they are for always.

Currents in Theology and Mission