DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, VOLUME 1

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Sanctorum Communio

A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church

Translated from the German Edition

Edited by

Joachim von Soosten

English Edition

Edited by

Clifford J. Green

Translated by

Reinhard Krauss and Nancy Lukens

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 1

First Fortress Press paperback edition 2009

Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1986; Band 1 edited by Joachim von Soosten. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1, published by Fortress Press in 1998.

Sanctorum Communio first published in German by Trowlitzsch & Sohn in 1930, and Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1960. Original English-language edition of The Communion of Saints published in 1963 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, and Harper & Row, Inc., New York. New English-language translation of Sanctorum Communio with new supplementary material first published in 1998 by Fortress Press as part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.

Copyright:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1: Copyright © 1998 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. New Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English-language translation of material first published as The Communion of Saints: Copyright © 1963 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. All rights reserved. All other material original to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edition of Sanctorum Communio including the General Editor’s Foreword, Editor’s Introduction, abbreviations, bibliographies, indexes, and some notes: Copyright © 1998 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.

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Translation of this work was generously supported by the Inter Nationes Agency, Bonn.

Jacket design: Cheryl Watson

Cover photo: Dietrich Bonhoeffer © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 1998. Photo of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1928 in Barcelona by Rotraut Forberg, Düsseldorf.

Internal design: The HK Scriptorium, Inc.

ISBN 978-0-8006-9652-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.

[Sanctorum communio. English]

Sanctorum communio: a theological study of the sociology of the church / Dietrich Bonhoeffer; translated from the German edition edited by Joachim von Soosten; English edition edited by Clifford J. Green; translated by Reinhard Krauss and Nancy Lukens.

p. cm.—(Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works; v. 1)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 310) and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8006-8301-6 (alk. paper)

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