Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community
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“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”
―Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it be a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.”
―Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, An insightful look at the church and the path to eternal life, featuring:
- New Greek and Latin Translations and Transliterations.
- Original Introduction.
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“It would be impossible to overrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s importance as a disciple, a great Christian, and moral leader”
— The New York Times Book Review
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer examines Christian community. A prominent theologian and martyr, Bonhoeffer reflects on his time at the underground Finkenwalde Seminary during Nazi Germany. Written following the seminary's closure by the Nazis, the book offers practical and spiritual guidance on building faith-filled relationships. It encourages readers to embrace community rooted in Christ, faith, love, and support.
Encouraging readers globally to delve into the strength and grace found in communal Christian living, this work is highly recommended for those wishing to deepen their connection and sense of purpose within their faith journey.
Life Together was first published in 1939. Blue Harvest Publishing aims to introduce individuals to Jesus Christ through Christian content. This book is part of their Classics series, valued for its wisdom and influence. Life Together is a valuable addition to any Christian library.
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Berlin, 1933. Twenty-seven-year-old pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer leans toward a radio microphone and, with calm urgency, reminds a spellbound nation that Jesus Christ—not the Führer—claims every human heart. The broadcast is severed mid-sentence, but the spark is struck. Born in 1906 to a cultured German family, Bonhoeffer chased theology like a detective, gathering clues in Berlin, Barcelona, and jazz-soaked Harlem before penning his breakout manifesto The Cost of Discipleship, a rallying cry for costly grace.
When the Nazis bent Germany’s churches into propaganda, he co-founded the shadow-realm Confessing Church, training seminarians in wind-swept farmhouses—a crucible later chronicled in Life Together. Barred from the pulpit in 1940, he stepped onto a quieter battlefield with an Abwehr resistance ring, its coded letters hidden in hymnals, its prayers whispered over railway timetables. Even his theological drafts—eventually published as Ethics—read like covert dispatches from occupied territory.
Arrested in 1943, Bonhoeffer filled his cell with chess games, quiet jokes, and the letters that would become Letters and Papers from Prison and Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible. At dawn on April 9, 1945, he walked to the Flossenbürg gallows serene in the promise that, through Christ, every ending is only the first chapter of life renewed.
