Bonhoeffer Berlin Course
with Dr. Andrew Root
Travel-Learning Experience: Berlin, Germany
We will be exploring theology, culture and Christianity through the lens and story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dr. Andrew Root will guide us through an integrative mix of lectures, tours, conversations, and experiential learning set in the Bonhoeffer family home and various museums and sites all around the historic and vibrant city of Berlin.
An optional Wittenberg add-on day explores the roots of the Reformation.
Travel-Learning Experience: Berlin, Germany
We will be exploring theology, culture and Christianity through the lens and story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dr. Andrew Root will guide us through an integrative mix of lectures, tours, conversations, and experiential learning set in the Bonhoeffer family home and various museums and sites all around the historic and vibrant city of Berlin.
An optional Wittenberg add-on day explores the roots of the Reformation.
Trip DetailsOur home base for this travel and learning experience will be the Historic Bonhoeffer Haus, where Dietrich and his siblings plotted the conspiracy to kill Hitler, and where Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo on April 5, 1943. Dr. Andrew Root, whose own work and thinking has been deeply shaped by Bonhoeffer, will guide us through the story of Bonhoeffer's life, and into Bonhoeffer's theology of "place-sharing."
All this is set in the vibrant and historical city of Berlin, in which, for all intents and purposes, the 20th century began (with the Declaration of WWI in 1914), and ended, (with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989). Many Berlin sites, such as the wall and various museums and Confessing Churches, are included in this travel-learning experience. Weaving in reflective prayer practices, Rev. Kara Root will invite us into a spirit of receptivity. How might God meet us in this unique and focused encounter with the world beyond us, the people beside us, and the lives of those gone before us? Sample Itinerary:
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Want to learn more about Bonhoeffer?Want to learn more about Bonhoeffer?No advance reading required! This is a whole course - come with background or knowing nothing about Bonhoeffer!
That said, if you want to read more... RECOMMENDED BOOKS: 
And if you want a theological view check out Andy's book, (not just for youth workers!):
Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together, by Andrew Root Books about Bonhoeffer by German historians and scholars are also recommended.
NOT RECOMMENDED: Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Unfortunately, as a NYTimes bestseller, this tends to be the first book that pops up for folks. It is NOT endorsed or recommended by the Bonhoeffer scholarship community. Metaxas writes in an ahistorical way with a distinctly American political agenda. 
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