Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 6

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ethics

Translated from the German Edition

Edited by

Ilse Tödt, Heinz Eduard Tödt†,

Ernst Feil, and Clifford Green

English Edition

Edited by

Clifford J. Green

Translated by

Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West,

and Douglas W. Stott

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 6

Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1998; Band 6, Auflage 2, edited by Ilse Tödt, Heinz Eduard Tödt, Ernst Feil, and Clifford Green. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 6, published by Fortress Press in 2005.

Ethik first published in German by Christian Kaiser Verlag in 1949. Original English-language edition of Ethik published in 1955 as Ethics by SCM Press Ltd., London, and the Macmillan Company, New York. Touchstone edition of Ethics published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, New York. New English-language translation of Ethik with new supplementary material first published in 2005 by Fortress Press as part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.

Copyright:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 6: Copyright © 2005 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. New Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English-language translation of material first published as Ethics: Copyright © 1949, 1955, 1995, 2005 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. All other material original to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edition of Ethics including the General Editor’s Foreword, Editor’s Introduction, History and Good [1], abbreviations, Editors’ Afterword, appendices, bibliographies, indexes, and some notes: Copyright © 2005 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.

Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without permission of the copyright holder. Write to permissions at: Augsburg Fortress, P.O. Box 1209, Minneapolis MN 55440; Simon & Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10020; SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd., 9-17 St. Albans Place, London N1 0NX, England.

Jacket design: Cheryl Watson

Cover photo: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1942. © Chr. Kaiser/Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, Germany.

Internal design: The HK Scriptorium, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.

[Ethik. English]

Ethics / Dietrich Bonhoeffer; translated from the German edition edited by Ilse Tödt, Heinz Eduard Tödt, Ernst Feil, and Clifford Green; English edition edited by Clifford J. Green; translated by Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West, and Douglas W. Stott.

p. cm.—(Dietrich Bonhoeffer works; v. 6)

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes.

ISBN 0-8006-8306-4 (alk. paper)

1. Christian ethics—Bekennende Kirche authors. I. Green, Clifford J. II. Krauss, Reinhard, 1957– III. West, Charles C. IV. Stott, Douglas W. V. Title. IV. Series: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945. Works. English. 1996; v. 6.

BR45.B6513 1996 vol. 6

[BJ1253]

241—dc22

2004019811...