In his late letters, Bonhoeffer raised tantalizing questions about the role of Christianity and the church in an increasingly secular world. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career, National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty tells how and whyLetters and Papers from Prisonhas been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the cold war to today.
The posthumousLetters and Papers from Prisonhas had a tremendous impact on both Christian and secular thought since it was first published in 1951, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century.
A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy,Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prisonis unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century.
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