Arrested for his involvement in resistance networks against Hitler, Bonhoeffer writes with startling composure from inside the machinery that would eventually execute him.

Written from a Nazi prison between 1943 and 1945, Letters and Papers from Prison gathers Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s correspondence, notes, poems and theological fragments from the final years of his life. The book is both a historical document and a work of unfinished thought. Its famous reflections on “religionless Christianity,” responsibility, suffering and ethical action have made it one of the major theological texts of the twentieth century, but its force comes just as much from its intimacy: letters to family and friends, small observations from confinement, and the mind of someone trying to think clearly while history closes in.

Fontana paperback edition. Good condition.