DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

God Is on the Cross

Reflections on Lent and Easter

translated by o. c. dean jr.

compiled and edited by jana riess

© 2012 Westminster John Knox Press

2012 paperback edition

Originally published in hardback in the United States

by Westminster John Knox Press in 2012

Louisville, Kentucky

Devotional text herein originally appeared in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007). Translated by O. C. Dean Jr. from the German So will ich diese Tag emit euch Leben by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jahreslesebuch published in 2005 by Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, Germany.

Quotations as indicated are used by permission from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditations on the Cross (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998). Translated by Douglas W. Stott from Das Außerordentliche wird Ereignis: Kreuz und Auferstehung, published 1996 by Kaiser/ Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, Germany.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906–1945.

[Selections. English. 2010]

God is on the cross: reflections on Lent and Easter / by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; translated by O. C. Dean Jr.; compiled and edited by Jana Riess.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-664-23849-0 (alk. paper)

1. Lent—Meditations. 2. Easter—Meditations I. Riess, Jana. II. Title.

BV85.B62513 2012

242ʹ.34—dc23

2012011937

ISBN 978-0-664-23920-6 (paper edition)

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