For that reason, Life Together includes strong opinions about how a community should do daily reading and prayer. Christians, in Bonhoeffer's world, meet together morning and night, before and after their workdays. In this book, Bonhoeffer explored the role of Christian community, which he imagines as a small, familial fellowship of believers. That biographical tidbit makes every one of his books more amazing his strong rhetoric is not simply hopeful. As with his opposition to Fascism, Bonhoeffer lived out each one of his beliefs. 'Reading Bonhoeffer is incredibly convicting.' That was my friend's opinion when I mentioned this book, and he is absolutely right.īonhoeffer was the German pastor convicted, imprisoned, and executed for speaking out against Hitler and eventually scheming to assassinate him. Kelly to clarify the theological meaning and social importance of Bonhoeffer’s work. Barnett and an insightful introduction by Geffrey B. Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. While Bonhoeffer wrote with his own seminary community in mind, he intended Life Together to have a more universal impact, and spoke of a mission and responsibility of the church as a whole. The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher's seminary at Finkenwalde by the Nazis. Life Together gathers Bonhoeffer’s 1938 reflections on the character of Christian community, based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the Finkenwalde Seminary and in the “Brother’s House” there.

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.

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