Print
Word
PDF
|
This section contains 498 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community Summary & Study Guide Description
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community Plot Summary
Preview of Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community Summary:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer receives a call in 1935 to take charge of an illegal, secret seminary for the training of young pastors in Finkenwalde, Germany. He is living in England at the time to avoid continuing conflict as a Christian pastor and theologian with his homeland Germany's Nazi government. He previously broadcasts public criticism of the German people in 1933 for following their leader Hitler. Risking severe persecution, he accepts the position and returns to Germany in 1935. Bonhoeffer becomes the director of the seminary, leading the seminarians in life together as a Christian community of fellowship. The common life they share provides the spiritual content and context for Life Together, which is the English translation of the German text Gemeinsames Leben, written in 1938. This non-fiction account occurs within the historical context of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. The narrative is an illustration of spiritual life in the illegal...
(read more)
|
This section contains 498 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
