Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons

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"Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life was, in a sense, the embodiment of Advent. Few figures in the twentieth century had such influence on the church. Few moved with such determination, searched their own soul so vigorously through the lens of Scripture, or spoke and wrote with such eloquence. Yet at the center of Bonhoeffer's activity was an attitude of expectant waiting, of longing and looking for Christ to come in greater measure to the church and to Bonhoeffer's own heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons takes us from the spring of 1928 to the winter of 1944, and from Barcelona to America, London, and Germany, and ultimately, to the final, consummating advent of prison. The words in this book are both a celebration of life and faith, and an admonition to live under the lordship of Christ. The implications of the cross were a reality that Bonhoeffer preached with conviction and lived with passion. His words are flames to the tinder of our souls, igniting in us the same fire that has lit the living church through the centuries. With Dietrich Bonhoeffer, we celebrate Christmas ... and with hopeful, longing hearts, we look for the coming of Christ, our Savior and King."--The book jacket.