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Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Written by John Matthews

Narrated by Simon Vance

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John Matthews has been captivated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer for thirty years, long before the film brought this modern Christian martyr back into the public eye. This book will take you into Bonhoeffer's struggle of terror and faith in his Letters and Papers from Prison. Guided by Matthews's keen mind and pastoral courage, you will be led past the crumbling pillars of worn religiosity to the hidden disciplines through which Christians live in difficult times. - David L. Tiede, Luther Theological SEMInary
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 1, 2005
ISBN9781596442252
Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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John Matthews

John Matthews is a world-renowned authority on the Celtic wisdom tradition and the Arthurian legends. He is the author of numerous books, including The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom. 

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    In my most recent read I finished turning the pages of Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ-Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by John W. Matthews. Who is Sr. Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota and also vice president of the International Bohnhoeffer Society’s English Language Section.This brief yet brilliant book sets out to achieve a simple goal: to introduce and explain Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological thinking in terms that will make him relevant for readers today. It does this by showing the prison reflections of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and how they contain profound inspiration for all who desire to walk more closely with Jesus in today’s troubling world by illuminating the context and content of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought. Anxious Souls Will Ask…uses writings of this famed Christian martyr to critique the spirit of the age and to encourage Christians in the depth of there commitment which is required to stand firm against the present winds of postmodern culture. This a great companion to Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison.John Matthews argues that, while Bonhoeffer’s greatest impact comes from his martyrdom, it is in Bonhoeffer’s spirituality and theology that are the seeds for continuing relevance and inspiration for the church into the third millennium. Our context is the same in significant ways, according to Matthews: we live in an increasingly secular world, with a church quite often on the defensive, and hence reactionary.Matthews identifies five particular elements that Bonhoeffer recognized as being crumbling pillars of the church: the persistence of individualistic religion, an exclusive focus on otherworldliness, uncritical verbal proclamation and evangelism, the identification of earthly blessing as the presence of God and earthly suffering as the absence of God, and childish dependence on God. All of these are crumbling pillars, according to Matthews’ reading of Bonhoeffer, but yet remain attractive and persistent in varying ways.The book begins with a brief chronology of the events in Bonhoeffer’s life, from his birth in 1906 to his death in 1945. The appendix has selections from Bonhoeffer’s ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’, a pivotal work that has profoundly influenced Christians all around the world since its publication. There are also appendices of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as secondary sources in English. I believe newcomers and scholars alike will benefit from the fruits of John Matthews’s pilgrimage alongside Bonhoeffer.