DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, VOLUME 15

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Theological Education Underground: 1937–1940

Translated from the German Edition

Edited by

Dirk Schulz

English Edition

Edited by

Victoria J. Barnett

Translated by

Victoria J. Barnett, Claudia D. Bergmann, Peter Frick, and Scott A. Moore

Supplementary Material Translated by

Douglas W. Stott

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS, Volume 15

Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, edited by Eberhard Bethge, et al., by Chr. Kaiser Verlag / Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, in 1998; Band 15, Illegale Theologenausbildung: Sammelvikariate 1937–1940, edited by Dirk Schulz. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 15, published by Fortress Press in 2012.

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Cover photo: Christian Gremmels/Renate Bethge (eds.), Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life in Pictures

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.

[Illegale Theologen-Ausbildung. English]

Theological education underground, 1937–1940 / Dietrich Bonhoeffer;

translated from the German edition edited by Dirk Schulz; English edition edited by Victoria J. Barnett; translated by Victoria J. Barnett … [et al.]; supplementary material

translated by Douglas W. Stott.

p. cm.—(Dietrich Bonhoeffer works; v. 15)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8006-9815-7 (alk. paper)

1. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945—Correspondence. 2. Theologians—Germany—Correspondence. 3. Sermons, German. 4. Meditations.

I. Barnett, Victoria, 1950– II. Title.

BX4827.B65A3 2011

230’.044092—dc23

2011034419

ISBN 978-0-8006-9815-7

Contents

General Editor’s Foreword to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works

Abbreviations

Editor’s Introduction to the English Edition

Victoria J. Barnett

Theological Education Underground: 1937–1940

Part 1

Letters and Documents, Diary

1. From the Office of the Gestapo, Berlin, to Reich Church Minister Hanns Kerrl, Berlin, November 30, 1937

2. To the Finkenwalde Brothers, Groß-Schlönwitz, December 20, 1937

3. To Paula Bonhoeffer, Stolp, December 21, 1937

4. Inscription in the Copy of Discipleship for Martin Niemöller, Groß-Schlönwitz, Advent 1937

5. To Paula Bonhoeffer, Köslin—Groß-Schlönwitz, December 30, 1937

6. To Franz Hildebrandt, Groß-Schlönwitz/Schlawe, January 3, 1938

7. To ...