The definitive English translation of the Critical Edition. A comprehensive and thoroughly annotated sixteen-volume resource for the study of Bonhoeffer in the wider frame of twentieth-century thought and history.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series is a translation from the German editions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke. Several of the volumes are now available in English.
This set includes a variety of Bonhoeffer's writings, including published books, theological and academic writing, fiction, poetry, and letters to his friends and family from prison. Follow his journey from his early years and education, including his doctoral dissertation, through his travels around Germany and into Spain and the United States, and finally to his sentence in a Nazi prison. Here you will find a wealth of wisdom from a man who was a pastor, poet, theologian, and martyr.
Volume 1 Sactorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church, translation of Sanctorum Communio: Eine dogmatische Untersuchung zur Soziologie der Kirche
Volume 2 Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic Theology, translation of Akt und Sein: Transzendentalphilosophie und Ontologie in der systematischen Theologie
Volume 3 Creation and Fall, translation of Schöpfung und Fall
Volume 4 Discipleship, translation of Nachfolge
Volume 5 Life Together, translation of Gemeinsames Leben and The Prayerbook of the Bible: An Introduction to the Psalms, translation of Das Gebetbuch der Bibel
Volume 6 Ethics, translation of Ethik
Volume 7 Fiction from Tegel Prison, translation of Fragmente aus Tegel
Volume 8 Letters and Papers from Prison, translation of Widerstand und Ergebung
Volume 9 The Young Bonhoeffer: 1918-1927, translation of Jugend und Studium: 1918-1927
Volume 10 Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928-1931, translation of Barcelona, Berlin, Amerika: 1928-1931
Volume 11 Ecumenical, Academic and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932, translation of Ökumene, Universität, Pfarramt: 1931-1932
Volume 12 Berlin: 1933, translation of Berlin: 1933
Volume 13 London: 1933-1935, translation of London: 1933-1935
Volume 14 Theological Education at Finkenwalde: 1935-1937, translation of Illegale Theologenausbildung: 1935-1937 (not yet available)
Volume 15 Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940, translation of Illegale Theologenausbildung: 1937-1940
Volume 16 Conspiracy and Imprisonment: 1940-1945, translation of Konspiration und Haft: 1940-1945