English summary: Student, vicar, director of the theological training college for the Confessing Church, member of the resistance, prisoner, and throughout all of this still a theologian & anyone familiar with Bonhoeffer=s life and personality is likely to read many of his writings in a different way. Bernd Vogel offers an interpretation here of a text that has become known as an alternative confession of faith & ?Some Statements of Faith on God=s Action in History=. All fear of the future could be overcome through such ...
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English summary: Student, vicar, director of the theological training college for the Confessing Church, member of the resistance, prisoner, and throughout all of this still a theologian & anyone familiar with Bonhoeffer=s life and personality is likely to read many of his writings in a different way. Bernd Vogel offers an interpretation here of a text that has become known as an alternative confession of faith & ?Some Statements of Faith on God=s Action in History=. All fear of the future could be overcome through such faith & that was Bonhoeffer=s conviction. In a note written in July 1944, Bonhoeffer observed that ?In conversation, something new can always happen=, and in this volume Vogel is also ?in conversation= with Bonhoeffer=s unfinished theological testament and with readers. Seventy-five years after Bonhoeffer was murdered in Flossenburg concentration camp, Vogel makes this great theologian newly accessible to everyone interested. Bonhoeffer & the last reformer? German description: Student, Vikar, Predigerseminardirektor der Bekennenden Kirche, Beteiligter am Widerstand und Gefangener, in alldem Theologe - wer Bonhoeffers Leben und seine Personlichkeit kennt, liest viele seiner Texte anders. Bernd Vogel legt einen Text aus, der als ein alternatives Glaubensbekenntnis bekannt ist: "Einige Glaubenssatze uber das Walten Gottes in der Geschichte". Alle Angst vor der Zukunft musste uberwunden sein, wenn man so glaubt; das war Bonhoeffers Uberzeugung. - "Im Gesprach kann immer etwas Neues geschehen" notierte Bonhoeffer im Juli 1944. "Im Gesprach" ist Vogel auch mit dem unvollendeten theologischen Testament Bonhoeffers und mit den Lesern und Leserinnen. Er macht diesen grossen Theologen 75 Jahre nach seiner Ermordung im KZ Flossenburg fur alle Interessierten neu zuganglich. Bonhoeffer - der letzte Reformator?
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