As Clifford Green notes, ‘Each grew gradually by the coalescence of numerous separate studies on the subject until it formed a whole’. In addition, Bonhoeffer did not write Ethics chapter by chapter, according to a fixed plan. The latest English translation is by Fortress Press (2008).īonhoeffer was unable to complete the manuscript, and what we have is a compilation of extant sections, some of which are complete while others are not. Press was the first to publish an English translation of this work in 1955. Bonhoeffer scholars have often described Ethik as the ‘crown jewel’ of the Lutheran theologian’s entire corpus. Written between 19 in Berlin, at the monastery of Ettal and at Kieckow, the work was eventually published under the title Ethik in Germany in 1949. An anti-Nazi dissident, Bonhoeffer was executed for plotting against the Fürer, Adolf Hitler, on 9 April 1945 just before the collapse of the Nazi regime. One of the most challenging and compelling works on Christian ethics produced during the chaos and confusion of the Second World War is by the German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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