4.13 Marsh (2014)
Marsh, Charles (2014) Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. New York: Alfred A Knopf.
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Author Charles Marsh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Project on Lived Theology. He is the author of seven previous books, including God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights, which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Of Marsh's earlier volume Reclaiming Bonhoeffer, the late Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's closest friend and first biographer, wrote: "This book is a theological sensation--an exciting event. Nobody who attempts to define Bonhoeffer's legacy today will (be) able to ignore Marsh's book." Marsh was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 2009 and the 2010 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia." |
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This is by far the best biography of perhaps the most significant Christian theologian/pastor of the 20th century. Marsh helps us understand the continuing importance of Bonhoeffer's development of the idea of "worldly Christianity" for all the center-left/center-right theologies of our time.
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This is by far the best biography of perhaps the most significant Christian theologian/pastor of the 20th century. Marsh helps us understand the continuing importance of Bonhoeffer's development of the idea of "worldly Christianity" for all the center-left/center-right theologies of our time.
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Endorsements
"Charles Marsh brings Bonhoeffer to life in his full complexity for the first time. With a keen understanding of the multifaceted writings, often misunderstood, as well as the imperfect man behind the saintly image, here is a nuanced, exhilarating, and often heartrending portrait that lays bare Bonhoeffer's flaws and inner torment, as well as the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him. Strange Glory is a momentous achievement." ~inside cover
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"An extraordinary account of an extraordinary life, Charles Marsh's Strange Glory is profoundly researched and vividly imagined. Marsh has unearthed enough archival material to keep generations of Bonhoeffer scholars occupied, but more important, has used his knowledge to weave a mesmerizing tale about one of the giants of the twentieth century. I can't remember when I have read a more compelling biography." ~Alan Jacobs, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Baylor University ~back cover
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