This is the last book that Bonhoeffer wrote before he was arrested by
the Nazis. Pages of it were on his desk the day he was taken away and it
remained unfinished. It is bold, provocative and profound.
Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly
translated and annotated, this crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work
is the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey.
This edition is published with a foreword by Sam Wells.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a
German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key
founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on
Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential