The first of the chronological volumes in this acclaimed critical edition of Bonhoeffer's work gathers his one hundred earliest letters and journals from after the First World War through his graduation from Berlin University. It also contains his early theological writings up to his dissertation. These seventeen works include for example works on the patristic period for Adolf von Harnack on Luther's moods for Karl Holl on biblical interpretation for Professor Reinhold Seeberg as well as essays