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Christ the Center (Harper's Ministers Paperback Library) [Paperback]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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September 1, 2009 Harper's Ministers Paperback Library

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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Text: English, German (translation)

Product Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: HarperOne; 1 edition (September 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060608110
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060608118
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.4 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Cost of Discipleship January 7, 2000
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
4.0 out of 5 stars 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
4.0 out of 5 stars Who?
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
2.0 out of 5 stars 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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