The Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

by John A. Moses

Book Overview

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant. Bonhoeffer gradually recognized the ways in which the intellectual and religious traditions of his own class - the Bildungsb rgertum - were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845455312
• ISBN13: 9781845455316
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"