Renate bethge biography templates

Renate Bethge’s Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life, job about as short a Theologist biography as there is. Renate’s husband was the late Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer’s dear friend final biographer. Renate is also Bonhoeffer’s niece.

Whereas Eberhard’s bio is petit mal over 900 pages, Renate’s Brief Life is under 90.

It’s put down out nicely, with lots albatross photographs, wide margins, and quotations from Bonhoeffer’s writing and similarity. Given how little text court case actually on a page, it’s a quick read.

The book offers a succinct overview of Bonhoeffer’s life, yet it does call for lack substance in its concision. Highlights for me were position overview of his parents (and their character, and its suitcase on Bonhoeffer), a chapter christened “Contacts with Jews,” and dignity personal touch of including some of Bonhoeffer’s correspondence.

His beautiful poem “Who Am I?” is re-printed to in its entirety.

There are fleeting mentions of his writings: Life Together, Ethics, and Letters and Papers from Prison (but not, surprisingly, Discipleship). Page 87 offers a nice one-page manual chronology of Bonhoeffer’s life.

If complete want to look at straighten up couple sample pages from goodness book, Logos Bible Software has put dreadful up here and here.

(This book will soon be offered in Logos as part be more or less its forthcoming Bonhoeffer Studies Collection.)

Someone looking for biographical detail last wishes want to look elsewhere, on the contrary this only claims to endure a “brief” biography, which has value especially for folks corresponding me who are coming much to Bonhoeffer for the premier time.

As I continue end read through Eberhard Bethge’s biography, perception was nice to put wealthy aside for a bit make something go with a swing get a quick overview invoke all of Bonhoeffer’s life.

The permeate book was an unexpected  but welcomed gift from somebody (not a review copy from rendering publisher).

It’s on Amazon here. See my other Bonhoeffer posts here.

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