Encounters with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not typical that Catholic bishops write about Protestant martyrs, but Gerhaed Ludwig Muller -- archbishop of Regensburg and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- has long studied the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

In his newest work, he offers a concise introduction to Bonhoeffer's life, teaching, and martyrdom in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

This accessible book offers a thorough introduction to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his theology.

Muller cogently presents the development of Bonhoeffer's thought over years and weighs the influence Catholic theology had on his work and piety.

Muller shows how Bonhoeffer bears witness for all Christians through a powerful theme in Bonhoeffer's life -- his relation to Christ and his concept of a 'discipleship' that transforms one's entire existence.

In this way Muller puts forward Bonhoeffer as a touchstone of the connectedness of Christians for ecumenical dialogue.