Written while imprisoned by the Nazis in 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's poem, "Who Am I?" reflects on universal questions about the uncertainly of the future, the nature of humanness, and the quest to find our purpose in life. To illuminate central thoughts within the poem, this attractive full-color book also contains excerpts from other writings. Finally, a brief biography of Bonhoeffer introduces the reader to the theologian's life, making this book a wonderful gift for those interested in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and those facing key life transitions where one might ask the crucial question, "Who am I?"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war's end.
Overshadowed by his life and death, his theology and his view of Christianity's role in the secular world has nevertheless remained very influential.
He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the Gospels.
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