"After Ten Years": Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times

by Victoria J. Barnett

Overview

How does one read the signs of the times? What does it mean to resist? How do we engage faithfully in struggle? Dietrich Bonhoeffer has achieved iconic status as one who epitomizes what it means to struggle and resist tyranny and fascism and how one acts in faithful witness as a religious and political commitment. Bonhoeffer‘s witness and example is more relevant than ever. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by Bonhoeffer in 1942; "After Ten Years" is a succinct and sober reflection, and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the German people under National Socialism. This volume presents this timely and unique essay in a fresh translation and a penetrating introduction and analysis of the importance of this essay-in Bonhoeffer‘s time and now in our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506433387
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	10/15/2017
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	1,003,812
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Victoria J. Barnett served from 2004-2014 as one of the general editors of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the English translation series of Bonhoeffer's complete works published by Fortress Press. She has lectured and written extensively about the Holocaust, particularly about the role of the German churches. Her published works include Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (1999) and For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (1992). Since 2004 she has directed the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and George Mason University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

1 Reading Bonhoeffer's "After Ten Years" in Our Times Victoria J. Barnett 1

2 After Ten Years: An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Translation Barbara Martin Rumscheidt 17

Suggestions for Further Reading 33

About the Authors 35