Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Foreword
• p. ix

• Preface to the First English Edition
• p. xiii

• Portrait
• p. xvii

• Abbreviations
• p. xix

• Part 1.
• The Lure of Theology

• 1.
• Childhood and Youth: 1906-1923
• p. 3

• Ancestors
• p. 3

• Parents' Home in Breslau
• p. 13

• Berlin
• p. 21

• The Decision to Become a Theologian
• p. 34

• 2.
• Student Years: 1923-1927
• p. 45

• Family
• p. 45

• Tubingen
• p. 47

• Rome
• p. 56

• Berlin
• p. 65

• Dissertation
• p. 77

• Seminar Essays
• p. 85

• First Ties to a Regional Church
• p. 91

• 3.
• Assistant Pastor in Barcelona: 1928
• p. 97

• Selecting a Post as Vicar
• p. 98

• The Country
• p. 100

• The Parish
• p. 105

• Plans for the Future
• p. 120

• 4.
• Assistant Lecturer in Berlin: 1929-1930
• p. 125

• Postdoctoral Work
• p. 128

• Family and Friends
• p. 137

• American Plans
• p. 142

• 5.
• America: 1930-1931
• p. 147

• The Country
• p. 148

• Friends
• p. 152

• Union Theological Seminary
• p. 156

• The Return Home
• p. 166

• Part 2
• The Cost of Being a Christian

• 6.
• Lecturer and Pastor: 1931-1932
• p. 173

• Bonn
• p. 175

• Catechism
• p. 186

• Cambridge
• p. 189

• The Transition from Theologian to Christian
• p. 202

• The University
• p. 207

• The Church
• p. 221

• Ecumenism
• p. 238

• 7.
• Berlin: 1933
• p. 257

• February: Controlled Chaos
• p. 259

• March: Hitler's Laws
• p. 263

• April: The German Christians
• p. 268

• May: The Young Reformation Movement
• p. 279

• June: The State Commissar
• p. 283

• July: Church Elections
• p. 293

• August: The Bethel Confession
• p. 300

• September: The Aryan Clause
• p. 304

• 8.
• London: 1933-1935
• p. 325

• Parish Minister
• p. 328

• First Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1933-1934
• p. 334

• George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester
• p. 354

• Fano
• p. 372

• Second Attack against the Reich Church Government, Winter 1934-1935
• p. 392

• Plans
• p. 406

• 9.
• Preachers' Seminary: 1935
• p. 419

• The Seminaries
• p. 419

• Zingst and Finkenwalde
• p. 424

• The Syllabus
• p. 441

• The House of Brethren
• p. 460

• The Ecumenical World
• p. 472

• The Steglitz Resolutions
• p. 486

• 10.
• Finkenwalde: 1936-1937
• p. 493

• The Fifth Implementation Decree
• p. 495

• The Journey to Sweden
• p. 506

• The Essay on Church-Community
• p. 517

• The Memorandum to Hitler
• p. 531

• "Service to Others"
• p. 539

• Chamby, 1936
• p. 546

• The Last Year in Finkenwalde
• p. 561

• The End of Finkenwalde
• p. 577

• 11.
• The Collective Pastorates: 1938-1940
• p. 587

• The Backwoods of Pomerania
• p. 588

• The Low Point of the Church Struggle
• p. 596

• Legalization
• p. 607

• The Lure of the Political Realm
• p. 620

• England: March and April 1939
• p. 635

• America: June and July 1939
• p. 648

• The War
• p. 662

• Christian and Man for His Times
• p. 676

• Part 3
• Sharing Germany's Destiny

• 12.
• Travels: 1940-1943
• p. 681

• Section One: The Church
• p. 686

• The Confessing Church during the War
• p. 686

• Professional Problems
• p. 695

• Theology
• p. 705

• Section Two: The Conspiracy
• p. 722

• The First Stage: Information, Spring 1941
• p. 724

• The Second Stage: Peace Aims, Autumn 1941
• p. 734

• The Third Stage: Information on the Coup, 1942
• p. 752

• The Arrest
• p. 780

• The Engagement
• p. 787

• The "Borderline Case"
• p. 791

• 13.
• Tegel: 1943-1944
• p. 799

• The Trial of Hans von Dohnanyi
• p. 800

• The Investigation of Bonhoeffer
• p. 810

• The Cell in Tegel
• p. 828

• The New Theology
• p. 853

• 14.
• In the Custody of the State: 1944-1945
• p. 893

• Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse
• p. 894

• Buchenwald
• p. 918

• Flossenburg
• p. 921

• The Bitter End
• p. 928

• Appendix 1.
• The Zossen Files
• p. 935

• Appendix 2.
• Bonhoeffer's Readings in Prison
• p. 943

• Notes
• p. 947

• Chronology
• p. 1025

• Index
• p. 1029