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Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they...

to suffer through the spirit. Christ suffered in freedom, in solitude, in the shadow, and in dishonor, in body and in spirit. Since then, many Christians have suffered with him. To this day, it seemed to us that developing a plan for our professional and personal life was one of the inalienable rights belonging to human life.[31] That has come to an end. Through the weight of circumstances, we have been put into the situation where we must forgo “worrying about tomorrow.”[32] But
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