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Summary:

"Few twentieth-century theologians have had a bigger impact on theology than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who lived his faith and died at the hands of the Nazis. For Bonhoeffer, the theological was the personal, life and faith deeply intertwined--and to this day the world is inspired by that witness. Yet the true story of the women in this remarkable man's life has until now been obscured by a conventional narrative that has distorted their role. Using primary source material by the women, and even including the first ever photo of alleged 'first fiancee' Elisabeth Zinn, this book 'sees' these women fully for the first time. A highly readable but scholarly work of narrative nonfiction, The Doubled Life places Bonhoeffer's theology of love and sexuality within the context of his struggles with women, friendship, and the evils of Nazi Germany."--publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pleasure and Pain (tob and ra)
• 1. "Sacred Space"
• 2. Ruptures
• 3. Life Amid the Ruins
• 4. Happy Times
• 5. Weddings
• pt. II Seeking Ground
• 6. Wanderings and Worries
• 7. Manhattan
• 8. Nazis
• 9. London
• 10. Battles and Choices
• pt. III Incomparable Year
• 11. New Ground
• 12. New Arrival
• 13. Finkenwalde
• 14. Murmurs of War
• 15. First Encounter
• 16. Ruth
• 17. Collision Courses

• pt. IV Reconfigurations
• 18. New World
• 19. Days of Love and Hope
• 20. Squaring Off against the Fuhrer
• 21. Friendship
• 22. "Convents" and Concentration Camps
• 23. What Will It Be?
• pt. V Decisions
• 24. Troubles
• 25. Escape
• 26. Changes
• 27. War Worries: 1939
• 28. London Redux
• 29. Sailing Away
• 30. Agony
• 31. Do You Want Me?
• pt. VI War and Conspiracies
• 32. Homecoming
• 33. Cold Idyll, Dark Nights
• 34. Winter, War, Wonder, Woe
• 35. Gert Gone
• 36. Darker Hours
• 37. Exile in Ettal
• 38. Foretaste of Paradise
• 39. Human Hearts in 1941
• 40. Conspiracies
• 41. City Life, Country Life
• 42. Horrors and Joys
• 43. Shadows
• pt. VII Cornered: 1942
• 43
• 44. Risks
• 45. Ruth and Maria
• 46. Sweden, Krossin, Berlin
• 47. Maria
• 48. Pursuit
• 49. Noose Tightens
• 50. Trapped
• 51. White Nurse
• pt. VIII Alone
• 52. Locked In
• 53. Care and Feeding
• 54. Wedding Sermon
• 55. Don't You Like Being Romantic?
• 56. Writing and Dissatisfaction
• 57. Doubts and Delights
• pt. IX Eberhard and Maria
• 58. Joy
• 59. Christmas
• 60. Berlin Falling
• 61. Birth and Ruin
• 62. Seesaw
• 63. Maria, Eberhard
• 64. Unraveled
• pt. X Saints
• 65. Catastrophe
• 66. Endings
• 67. Revenge
• 68. Arrest
• 69. Escape
• 70. Threads
• 71. Over
• 72. More Threads.

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Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Diane (Diane S.) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The doubled life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: women, sexuality, and Nazi Germany [by Reynolds, D.]

Subjects:

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 — Relations with women

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 — Friends and associates

Theologians — Germany — Biography

Clergy — Germany — Biography

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-441) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BX4827.B57 R49 2016

ISBNs:

9781498206570 (electronic bk.)
1498206573 (electronic bk.)
1498206565 [Invalid]
9781498206563 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

948773898

Other Control Numbers:

1228023 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12975648