'Alle Angst vor der Zukunft überwunden ...'

Student, vicar, director of the theological training college for the Confessing Church, member of the resistance, prisoner, and throughout all of this still a theologian & anyone familiar with Bonhoeffer=s life and personality is likely to read many of his writings in a different way. Bernd Vogel offers an interpretation here of a text that has become known as an alternative confession of faith & ?Some Statements of Faith on God=s Action in History=. All fear of the future could be overcome through such faith & that was Bonhoeffer=s conviction. In a note written in July 1944, Bonhoeffer observed that ?In conversation, something new can always happen=, and in this volume Vogel is also ?in conversation= with Bonhoeffer=s unfinished theological testament and with readers. Seventy-five years after Bonhoeffer was murdered in Flossenbürg concentration camp, Vogel makes this great theologian newly accessible to everyone interested. Bonhoeffer & the last reformer?

Dr. Bernd Vogel is a parish minister and works in adult education. He is one of the Chairs of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Association and is a member of the International Bonhoeffer Society.