In Memory of Helmut Gollwitzer on the 22nd Anniversary of his Death
Helmut Gollwitzer—student and friend of Karl Barth, prisoner of war, pastor, activist, and public theologian—died on this day 22 years ago. It was a shockingly ordinary death that came at the end of what was anything but an ordinary life.
As regular readers here at DET know, I am currently working on a book on Gollwitzer. Indeed, I have been working on it for some time. My hope is to introduce Gollwitzer and his work to a North American context that has much to learn from his life and thought. I am currently in the drafting stage, and so Gollwitzer’s legacy has been laying even more heavily than usual on my mind. As such, I wanted to take this moment to commemorate him.
If you don’t know much about Gollwitzer, I recommend to you his two volumes of sermons that have been translated into English: The Dying and Living Lord, The Way of Life.
But if you don’t want to wait for those books to ship to you, there are a number of things that I have written about Gollwitzer that you can access online. See the links below.
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As regular readers here at DET know, I am currently working on a book on Gollwitzer. Indeed, I have been working on it for some time. My hope is to introduce Gollwitzer and his work to a North American context that has much to learn from his life and thought. I am currently in the drafting stage, and so Gollwitzer’s legacy has been laying even more heavily than usual on my mind. As such, I wanted to take this moment to commemorate him.
By Stiftung Haus der Geschichte (2001_03_0275.4240) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons |
If you don’t know much about Gollwitzer, I recommend to you his two volumes of sermons that have been translated into English: The Dying and Living Lord, The Way of Life.
But if you don’t want to wait for those books to ship to you, there are a number of things that I have written about Gollwitzer that you can access online. See the links below.
- You can, of course, order my book: Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer, which is rather attractively priced.
- The DET serials page has a short series on Gollwitzer’s engagement with Marxist criticism of religion.
- Helmut Gollwitzer and John Webster on Scripture - Collin Cornell provided this thought-provoking guest-post on “the problem of ethical biblical criticism.”
- Gollwitzer on Christianity, Atheism, and the Existence of God
- What if Marx and Engels had been Englishmen? Helmut Gollwitzer’s answer
- “‘Shalom, Shalom, Shalom Israel!’ Jews and Judaism in Helmut Gollwitzer’s Life and Theology” - My essay published in Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations
- “Occupy Wall Street Is Doing the Church’s Work: Helmut Gollwitzer and Economic Justice” - My essay published in Unbound
- “The Blame Lies with the Christians: Helmut Gollwitzer’s Engagement with Marxist Criticism of Religion” - My essay published in The Other Journal
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