Testament to Freedom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 yet his courage vision and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling classic <em>The Cost of Discipleship </em>Bonhoeffer profoundly shaped such minds and movements as Martin Luther King Jr. and Leonardo Boff civil rights and leberation theology.<p><em>A Testament to Freedom </em>completely revised and expanded for this edition includes previously untranslated writings excerpts from major books sermons and selected letters spanning the years of Bonhoeffer's pastoral and theological career. This magnificent volume takes readers on a historical and biographical journey that follows Bonhoeffer through the various stages of his life--as teacher ecumenist pastor preacher seminary director prophet in the Nazi era and finally as martyr in pursuit of peace and justice.