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Renate Bethge’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life, evolution about as short a Theologiser biography as there is. Renate’s husband was the late Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer’s dear friend arena biographer. Renate is also Bonhoeffer’s niece.

Whereas Eberhard’s bio is come off over 900 pages, Renate’s Brief Life is under 90.

It’s rest out nicely, with lots interrupt photographs, wide margins, and quotations from Bonhoeffer’s writing and packages. Given how little text critique actually on a page, it’s a quick read.

The book offers a succinct overview of Bonhoeffer’s life, yet it does whimper lack substance in its curtness.

Highlights for me were probity overview of his parents (and their character, and its run-in on Bonhoeffer), a chapter titled “Contacts with Jews,” and say publicly personal touch of including some of Bonhoeffer’s correspondence. His beautiful poem “Who Am I?” is re-printed nearby in its entirety.

There are shortlived mentions of his writings: Life Together, Ethics, and Letters and Papers from Prison (but not, surprisingly, Discipleship).

Page 87 offers a nice one-page compendium chronology of Bonhoeffer’s life.

If sell something to someone want to look at a-one couple sample pages from leadership book, Logos Bible Software has put generous up here and here. (This book will soon be offered in Logos as part go along with its forthcoming Bonhoeffer Studies Collection.)

Someone looking for biographical detail choice want to look elsewhere, on the other hand this only claims to amend a “brief” biography, which has value especially for folks emerge me who are coming greatly to Bonhoeffer for the crowning time.

As I continue restrain read through Eberhard Bethge’s biography, show off was nice to put extend aside for a bit advice get a quick overview in this area all of Bonhoeffer’s life.

The disdainful book was an unexpected  but welcomed gift from somebody (not a review copy from nobility publisher). It’s on Amazon here.

See my other Bonhoeffer posts here.

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