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With extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance, this volume of writings covers a crucial time and an understudied period of Bonhoeffer’s life. It begins during the final period of his illegal work in training Confessing Church seminarians and concludes as he begins his activities in the German resistance. Bridging these two periods is his brief journey to...

a “Protestant” country. Americans have been captivated from the beginning by the notion of a special providence that reserved the discovery of America until the emergence of Protestantism. America is thus the only country in which the concept of “Protestantism” gained church-historical significance and reality, for America wants to be not the country of the Lutheran or the Reformed church but precisely the country of “Protestantism” in its full denominational breadth. Perhaps it is true to say that
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