Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography

The authoritative biography of Bonhoeffer — theologian, Christian, man for his times.

The Lure of Theology — Childhood and Youth: 1906-1923 — Ancestors — Parents' Home in Breslau — Berlin — The Decision to Become a Theologian — Student Years: 1923-1927 — Family — Tubingen — Rome — Berlin — Dissertation — Seminar Essays — First Ties to a Regional Church — Assistant Pastor in Barcelona: 1928 — Selecting a Post as Vicar — The Country — The Parish — Plans for the Future — Assistant Lecturer in Berlin: 1929-1930 — Postdoctoral Work — Family and Friends — American Plans — America: 1930-1931 — The Country — Friends — Union Theological Seminary — The Return Home — The Cost of Being a Christian — Lecturer and Pastor: 1931-1932 — Bonn — Catechism — Cambridge — The Transition from Theologian to Christian — The University — The Church — Ecumenism — Berlin: 1933 — February: Controlled Chaos — March: Hitler's Laws — April: The German Christians — May: The Young Reformation Movement — June: The State Commissar — July: Church Elections — August: The Bethel Confession — September: The Aryan Clause — London: 1933-1935 — Parish Minister — First Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1933-1934 — George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester — Fano — Second Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1934-1935 — Plans — Preachers' Seminary: 1935 — The Seminaries — Zingst and Finkenwalde — The Syllabus — The House of Brethren — The Ecumenical World — The Steglitz Resolutions — Finkenwalde: 1936-1937 — The Fifth Implementation Decree — The Journey to Sweden — The Essay on Church-Community — The Memorandum to Hitler — "Service to Others" — Chamby, 1936 — The Last Year in Finkenwalde — The End of Finkenwalde — The Collective Pastorates: 1938-1940 — The Backwoods of Pomerania — The Low Point of the Church Struggle — Legalization — The Lure of the Political Realm — England: March and April 1939 — America: June and July 1939 — The War — Christian and Man for His Times — Sharing Germany's Destiny — Travels: 1940-1943 — Section One: The Church — The Confessing Church during the War — Professional Problems — Theology — Section Two: The Conspiracy — The First Stage: Information, Spring 1941 — The Second Stage: Peace Aims, Autumn 1941 — The Third Stage: Information on the Coup, 1942 — The Arrest — The Engagement — The "Borderline Case" — Tegel: 1943-1944 — The Trial of Hans von Dohnanyi — The Investigation of Bonhoeffer — The Cell in Tegel — The New Theology — In the Custody of the State: 1944-1945 — Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse — Buchenwald — Flossenburg — The Bitter End — The Zossen Files — Bonhoeffer's Readings in Prison.