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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Personalist and Personal Theology of the Future

Abstract

The focus of this article is on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s grounding in personal value and a personal and incarnational grounding of resistance to both individual and systemic evil in the personal paradigm of God in Christ but also in steadfast connection to those with whom we are bound in love and righteous action.  In addition to Bonhoeffer’s own context, including in particular his deep and unbroken personal bond with his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer.  Sources for the study are Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, Letters and Papers from Prison, and Love Letters from Cell 92, his correspondence with Maria von Wedemeyer largely not found in LPP.