Anxious Souls Will Ask, John Matthews
Anxious Souls Will Ask, John Matthews
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Anxious Souls Will Ask
The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Author: John Matthews

Narrator: John Matthews

Unabridged: 2 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2005


Synopsis

John Matthews has been captivated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer for thirty years, long before the film brought this modern Christian martyr back into the public eye. This book will take you into Bonhoeffer’s struggle of terror and faith in his Letters and Papers from Prison. Guided by Matthews’s keen mind and pastoral courage, you will be led past the crumbling pillars of worn religiosity to the hidden disciplines through which Christians live in difficult times. - David L. Tiede, Luther Theological SEMInary

About John Matthews

John Matthews is Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, Yale University, USA. He received his PhD from Oxford University in 1969 and taught Greek and Roman history at Oxford for many years before moving to Yale in 1996. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. He is author of many books including Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, A.D. 364-425, The Roman Empire of Ammianus, Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code, and Roman Perspectives: Studies in the social, political and cultural history of the First to Fifth Centuries. He is also coauthor of the acclaimed Atlas of the Roman World.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on May 23, 2007

The seed of this man would produce beautiful children. Ok, it was written by my father in law.......more

Goodreads review by David on November 13, 2020

Thought provoking and brilliant from a clergyman opposing the church and the Nazi's in the 30s and 40s. They executed him but didn't kill his ideas.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 23, 2024

Ok......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 10, 2010

Short review: I think the idea (that a pastor familiar with the academic study of Bonhoeffer would write about the theology of Bonhoeffer for the lay person) is a good idea. But I was put off by the narrator and I thought the focus of the book while interesting was not as successful as it could have......more