Looking back on his experience in America, Bonhoeffer would refer cryptically to a sort of conversion experience, a turning toward the biblical text in a radically new and authentic way. These texts represent the major sources for Bonhoeffer ’s early academic period, which concludes effectively upon his trip to the United States in 1930. In 1927 Bonhoeffer had penned the text for his licentiate degree, a study of the sociality of the church, Sanctorum Communio, under the direction of Reinhold Seeburg. As a teaching fellow at Union Theological Seminary, the young Bonhoeffer spent the next year meeting colleagues like Jean Laserre, a French pacifist, and Frank Fisher, a black seminarian who introduced Bonhoeffer to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.īonhoeffer had recently completed his Habilitationschrift, which was published later under the title Act and Being. In September of 1930, the German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York for his first visit to America.
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