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Writing fiction, letters to his family, fiancée, and friends and contending with his interrogator occupied Bonhoeffer during his first year in Tegel Prison. Of the incomplete drama, the novel fragment, and the short story, Bonhoeffer admitted to his friend and later biographer, Eberhard Bethge, “There is a good deal of autobiography mixed with it.” This book discloses a great deal of Bonhoeffer’s...

publications for many years.[28] Indeed, the afterword is probably the most comprehensive of her interpretations of Bonhoeffer from the family perspective. But it is not a theological interpretation. To be sure, it touches on some overtly theological themes, particularly in the concluding sections “Christianity” and “Death and Resurrection.” But this still leaves unanswered the question of what Bonhoeffer’s theology has to do with other themes mentioned—power, tyranny, authority, responsibility.
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