Protestants: Bonhoeffer's Love Letters

Bonhoeffer's Love Letters

The contemporary fame of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German Protestant theologian who was executed in 1945 for taking part in the plots against Hitler, rests primarily on the Letters and Papers from Prison he wrote to friends and family. In these cryptic messages, most of them smuggled out of his cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, Bonhoeffer outlined a new kind of secular theology for a "world come of age" that has become the axiomatic premise for post-Christian thought. Last week a new cache of Bonhoeffer letters came to...