Daring, Trusting Spirit: Bonhoeffer's Friend Eberhard Bethge

by John de Gruchy (Editor)

Overview

How did Bonhoeffer's fame and influence happen? Much of the credit goes to Bonhoeffer's close friendship with his student and colleague Eberhard Bethge, says theologian John de Gruchy. In this important and fascinating work, de Gruchy narrates the course of that friendship, building on interviews and newly available primary sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800637583
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Publication date:	09/16/2005
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

John de Gruchy is professor emeritus of Christian studies and a senior scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Only a Country Boy

Called to be a Pastor

A Decisive Turn

Beginnings of a Friendship

Finkenwalde

The House of Brethren

Entering a New World

A Growing Intimacy

The Collective Pastorates

Sharing a Double Life

First Steps into Resistance

The Gossner Mission and Military Intelligence

A 'Singular Friendship'

Friendship, Romance and Marriage

Letters from Prison

A Soldier in Italy

Growing Disgust

The 'Theological Letters'

Amidst the Ruins

Imprisonment and Escape

Pastor to the Desolate

Post-War Reconstruction

The Future of the Church?

Recovering the Truth

Retrieving a Legacy

First Steps in Publishing

Abroad and at Home

Interpreting Bonhoeffer

Giving Structure to the Task

Going Beyond Bonhoeffer?

The Rengsdorf Years

Teacher, Traveller, Host

The Biography

The Church Struggle Revisited

A Confessing Church in South Africa?

Confession and Resistance

Remembering the Past Rightly

Mediator of Resistance Memories

Bethge, Bonhoeffer and the Holocaust

A Remarkably Fulfilled Life

Senior Colleague

'Church Father'

Faithful Friend

Mensch

Photographs

Index