An Afterword by Publishers of ‘Nachfolge’ (Discipleship), a Book by D. Bonhoeffer. Translation from German and Commentaries by Dmitriy N. Lebedev

Abstract

This publication is the first translation from German of the afterword to D. Bonhoeffer’s book «Nachfolge» (Discipleship), written by Martin Kuske and Ilse Tödt, publishers of the fourth volume of «Dietrich Bonhöffer Werke» (the second collected works of D. Bonhoeffer). This publication presents the first two parts of the four that make up the afterword. They address the following issues: the early ethical views of D. Bonhoeffer (1926–1929); his turn to pacifism and then to Scripture (1930–1932); the historical and political context of the work on the drafts of the Nachfolge (1933–1937). A brief review of the author’s literary interlocutors is given. The translation is supplemented by our comments, which are presented by the second level of footnotes.