Comments on: Where Will We Find God?

By: margie

margie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:35:03 +0000

Thanks, Steve. As a Christian by faith, Jew by birth, classical musician by training and history lover this is fascinating. I had never heard that Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer were related. And I lived in Ohio for 23 years!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:00:48 +0000

Hello Tim. Good question. The first book I read was “Letters and Papers from Prison.” Christoph von Dohnanyi, Bonhoeffer’s nephew, was, at that time of my reading, the conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and each year to commemorate his uncle’s execution he would host a Bonhoeffer concert which included readings from his late uncle interspersed with symphonic music. Really amazing. Anyway, Dohnanyi was interviewed in the local paper and the reporter mentioned the book which contained a few letters from a teenage Dohnanyi to his imprisoned uncle. I was intrigued, I read the book.
Two other Bonheoffer classics are “The Cost of Discipleship” (320 pages) and “Life Together” (128 [pages) .
I’d read all three.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:25 +0000

Steve-

Great quote by Bonhoeffer on your blog…

Having never read any of his works, what would by a good first book to read by Bonhoeffer?

By: soaring eagle

soaring eagle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:19:32 +0000

HI STEVE, JUST FOUND YOUR BLOG. YOU AHVE QUITE A FAMILY. GOD BLESS !! DOUG S