The New York Times Book Review states, “It would be impossible to overrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s importance as a disciple, a great Christian and moral leader.” Christ the Center cogently presents the basis of Bonhoeffer’s thinking about Jesus Christ and offers the key to his entire theology. A classic work of Christological thought, both edifying and uplifting, Christ the Center is an enlightening guide to faith and action in uncertain times.
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“It would be impossible to overrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s importance as a disciple, a great Christian and moral leader.” (JOHN MACQUARRIE, The New York Times Book ReviewJOHN MACQUARRIE, The New York Times Book ReviewJOHN MACQUARRIE, The New York Times Book ReviewJOHN MACQUARRIE, The New York Times Book ReviewJOHN MACQUARRIE, The New York Times Book ReviewJohn Macqu)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906. The son of a famous German psychiatrist, he studied in Berlin and New York City. He left the safety of America to return to Germany and continue his public repudiation of the Naz*s, which led to his arrest in 1943. Linked to the group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitlerr failed, he was hanged in April 1945.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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After seminary taught me how to dissect the Bible and faith, this pre-WWII work by the disciple of "costly grace" helped me put it back together. It is thoroughly academic, and it is unswerving in its insistence that questions of Biblical criticism cannot be placed before and above the question of our relationship to Christ. When Christ is the center, the world looks different than we arrogantly thought it would when looking from the outside in.
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This is an amazing book which will challenge the way you think about Christianity. Bonhoeffer brings up issues of grace, faith, and obiedence which will compel anyone to reflect on their faith in Jesus Christ. It is a wonderful and intellectual book for anyone who wants to know what REAL Christianity is.
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The book is very philosophical and filled with the language of theology. It pushes toward the question of all Christian theology: where is the place of Jesus of Nazareth in our faith? I think that Bonhoeffer's deductions are right on.
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A SERIES OF LECTURES BY BONHOEFFER ON CHRISTOLOGY
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, as well as a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Steven H. Propp
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Worth the price.
It is nice to get a book that is in the condition that is advertised. I am looking forward to the opportunity to read this book, but I have a couple in front of it. Read more
Published on January 26, 2011 by gisperky
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New version comes out Sept 1, 2009
The new critical edition of Bonhoeffer's 1933 Christology lectures that appear in Christ the Center come out Sept 1, 2009 in Berlin: 1932-1933 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 12)
Published on March 24, 2009 by Andrew D. Rowell
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The theme of Bonhoeffer's life
I had never heard of this book of Bonhoeffer's but saw the title and immediately decided to pick it up. Read more
Published on September 1, 2008 by Jordan B. Cooper
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In his book (lecture), Christ the Center, the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer seeks to show a Christology that emphasizes a new angle from which to view Christ, while... Read more
Published on April 28, 2001 by R. Michael Friends
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quite scholarly, very tedious, hard to read
This is not a book for the ordinary seeker after truth. It is much too philosophical, more for graduate school exercises in religious thought.
Published on February 22, 1999 by jlund@gate.net
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- Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on 4 pages
- No Rusty Swords by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Creation and Fall (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 3) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eberhard Bethge in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility by Professor Ronald C. Arnett on 14 pages
- Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of His Theology by Charles Marsh on 9 pages
- Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday by Alan E. Lewis on 7 pages
- Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday by Alan E. Lewis on 7 pages
- Invitation to Theology: A Guide to Study, Conversation & Practice by Michael Jinkins on 4 pages
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