Odpor a odevzdání - Dopisy z vězení – Bonhoeffer Dietrich (2023)

German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed by the Nazis in 1945) resisted the totalitarian regime for a full twelve years, which was openly anti-Semitic and covertly anti-Christian. He opposed it both ecclesiastically and civilly, through prayer and action: when he sang Gregorian chant and rescued Jews, when he prayed for the military defeat of his homeland while involved in preparations for an anti-Hitler coup. The new edition of Bonhoeffer's letters from prison is a revision of the translation that was published in Czech under the title "On the Way to Freedom: Letters from Prison" in 1991. This edition includes both the correspondence between Bonhoeffer and his friend Eberhard Bethge, as well as letters from his parents, and is supplemented with parts of letters that were omitted in the Czech edition. These are passages that addressed the mutual relationship between Bonhoeffer and Bethge, as well as Bonhoeffer's relationship with his fiancée. The aim was to present Bonhoeffer not only as a visionary theologian and martyr but also as a person with close, intimate relationships. Translated from the German original "Widerstand und Ergebung. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft" by Miloš Černý, Miroslav Heryán, Jiří Šamšula, and Jan Šimsa, with poems translated by Václav Renč and Robert Novotný. The revision of the translation, the translation of the missing parts, and...