Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Augsburg Fortress Publ, Dec 30, 2004 - Religion - 218 pages

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, a sixteen volume series, offers a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer's writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretations.The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher's seminary at Finkenwalde. The treatise contains Bonhoeffer's thoughts about the nature of Christian community based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the seminary and in the "Brother's House" there. Bonhoeffer completed the writing of Life Together in 1938.Prayerbook of the Bible is a classic of Christian spirituality. In this theological interpretation of the Psalms, Bonhoeffer describes the moods of an individual's relationship with God and also the turns of love and heartbreak, of joy and sorrow, that are themselves the Christian community's path to God.

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Review: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works #5)

User Review  - Jeff - Goodreads

This book, or two books in one, rather, is amazing. In Life Together, Bonhoeeffer examines what Christian community should look like. Granted, he is writing from an experience that few of us in the ...

Review: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works #5)

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Practical theology at its best.

About the author

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Nazis, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed, he was hanged in April 1945.

Kelly is Professor of Systematic Theology and Chairman of the Department of Religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia.

DANIEL W. BLOESCH is pastor of Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), in Yorkville, Illinois, and translator of a number of German theological works, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together (Fortress Press).

Burtness-Prof Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible; Volume 5 of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series; Volume 5 of Works, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Editor: Geffrey B. Kelly
• Translated by: Daniel W. Bloesch, James H. Burtness
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publ, 2004
• ISBN: 0800683250, 9780800683252
• Length: 218 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Prayerbooks / General