The Coherence of Life Without God Before God: The Problem of Earthly Desires in the Later Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

by Terrence Reynolds

In his Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer urges Christians to feel their longings for earthly realities to the fullest, and argues that such yearnings strengthen faith. This issue has been overlooked by Bonhoeffer scholars, despite its central place in the Letters; this study seeks to correct that oversight. Through a selective, chronological analysis of the Ethics, this text shows Bonhoeffer progressively developing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819172375
• ISBN13: 9780819172372
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 190 Pages