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When I first met Bonhoeffer
by Jim Wallis When I first met Dietrich Bonhoeffer, through reading his books as a young seminarian, he explained the world of faith to me. This young German theologian who was executed by the Nazis for his opposition to Hitler helped me to understand the difficult religious experiences I had known in America. I had […]
C. S. Lewis: Chronicles of an Apologist
Nine-year-old Jack Lewis was devastated. He felt that God had ignored his prayers when cancer claimed the life of his mother. He would later realize that he lost not only his beloved mother but, in a sense, his father as well. Clive Staples Lewis, nicknamed Jack, was one of the twentieth century’s greatest Christian apologists, […]
Bonhoeffer Now
Sightings 2/6/06 Bonhoeffer Now — Martin E. Marty “Bonhoeffer Was Wrong,” screams a headline in the National Catholic Reporter, atop an article by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. (January 27). For balance, then, should we also read “Schroth Is Right”? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by Hitler and company one month before Germany surrendered, is the subject of […]
Bonhoeffer Congress
ACNS 4103 | LAMBETH | 3 FEBRUARY 2005 Archbishop’s speech at the opening of the International Bonhoeffer Congress, University of Wroclaw, Poland Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in no way a theologian who wished to be defined by negations. In his prison letters, he deplores the tendency of religious apologists to concentrate on the weaknesses of the […]
The Archbishop on Bonhoeffer
(562) 03-February-2006 – Archbishop’s Speech for Ceremony at Dietrech Bonhoeffer Memorial – Lambeth In the course of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent significant time in many very different European contexts – notably in Spain, Britain, Italy and Scandinavia – as well as in the USA. He could reasonably have thought of himself as a citizen […]
Bonhoeffer
(560) 01-February-2006 – Celebrating Dietrich Bonhoeffer – USA Documentary airs February 6, 10 p.m. ET on Public Broadcast Services (PBS – USA only) Martin Doblmeier, director of the critically acclaimed documentary Bonhoeffer, says the German theologian’s struggle against Nazism leading up to and during World War II speaks to every Christian today who struggles with […]
Douglas Gresham and C. S. Lewis
GUEST Douglas Gresham and the Chronicles of C.S. Lewis The 700 Club CBN.com – To many, Lewis was a literary genius, but to Douglas Gresham, Lewis was “the finest man and the best Christian” he has ever known. There have been many accounts of the life of C.S. Lewis, or Jack as he liked to […]
Simone Weil
From Simone Weil (pronounced Vey) “First And Last Notebooks” (Translated by Richard Rees, Oxford University Press; London:1970) p.177 It is wrong to say that God gives gratuitously and that he owes nothing to men. Having created us, he owes us everything. p.194 Does not the custom of burial originate from the metaphor of the seed? […]
Celebrating Carter
Sightings 1/23/06 Celebrating Carter — Martin E. Marty In weekly Sightings and biweekly “M.E.M.O” and Context, my regular outlets, readers may have noticed that I very rarely “do” presidents, especially sitting ones. Today an ex-president comes into periscope range, since it’s exactly a quarter of a century since Jimmy Carter left office. It would seem […]
F W Boreham
Scholars like Lesslie Newbigin called theologians to recognize the public nature of truth. He said “truth ought to be acknowledged as true for the whole of society.” David Tracey, Ronald Thiemann and others have called for a ‘public theology’ and have asked, “What might a public theology look like?” Several years ago a discussion took […]
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