Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas | 2001 | Buy |
| Called to Community | 2016 | Buy |
| Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together | 2021 | Buy |
Collections
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| No Rusty Swords | 1970 | Buy |
| The Way to Freedom | 1971 | Buy |
| Letters to London | 1972 | Buy |
| True Patriotism | 1973 | Buy |
| Meditating on the Word | 1985 | Buy |
| A Testament To Freedom | 1990 | Buy |
| Voices in the Night | 1999 | Buy |
| Prison Poems | 2005 | Buy |
| The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 2012 | Buy |
| Bonhoeffer Reader | 2013 | Buy |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctorum Communio | 1930 | Buy |
| Act and Being | 1930 | Buy |
| Creation and Fall | 1937 | Buy |
| Discipleship | 1937 | Buy |
| Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible | 1939 | Buy |
| Ethics | 1949 | Buy |
| Fiction from Tegel Prison | 1950 | Buy |
| Letters and Papers from Prison | 1951 | Buy |
| The Young Bonhoeffer, 1918–1927 | 1952 | Buy |
| Theological Education at Finkenwalde, 1935-1937 | 1996 | Buy |
| Berlin: 1932–1933. | 1997 | Buy |
| Theological Education Underground: 1937-40 | 1998 | Buy |
| Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928–1931 | 2003 | Buy |
| Conspiracy and Imprisonment 1940-1945 | 2006 | Buy |
| London, 1933–1935 | 2007 | Buy |
| Ecumenical Academic Pastoral Work | 2012 | Buy |
| Indexes and Supplementary Materials | 2014 | Buy |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who lived from 1906 to 1945. He wrote his doctoral dissertation, Sanctorum Communio, at just 21 years old, and went on to produce some of the 20th century’s most widely read works of Christian theology. Discipleship and Life Together, both written in the 1930s, still appear on seminary reading lists and church study groups around the world.
Bonhoeffer’s life took a sharp turn during the Nazi era. He helped found the Confessing Church in opposition to the Nazi-aligned German Christian movement, and eventually joined a conspiracy to overthrow Hitler. He was arrested in 1943 and spent two years in prison, where he wrote the letters and papers that became one of his most important posthumous works. He was executed at Flossenburg concentration camp in April 1945, just weeks before the war ended.
His collected works, published in a 17-volume critical edition, cover everything from his early academic theology to his prison writings. Additional collections, sermons, and anthologies have continued to appear in the decades since his death, keeping his thought accessible to new generations of readers.