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The period 1928 to 1931, which followed completion of his dissertation, was formative for Bonhoeffer’s personal and pastoral and theological direction. Almost all of these nine hundred pages of writings appear in English here for the first time. They document the intense four-year period that included preparation of his postdoctoral thesis; a vicarage in Barcelona; occasional lectures; his...

personal meetings with him, I discussed various problems of American philosophy and its relationship to theology as manifested in recent literature; I learned a great deal from these sessions. In his courses, students have the opportunity to discuss the crudest forms of heresy and intellectual difficulties. The “philosophical approach” is very attractive to students because of its reputation as “scientific.”[13] The carefree manner with which students speak about God and world here is for us at the
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