Waiting for the Word : Dietrich Bonhoeffer on speaking about God / Frits de Lange ; translated by Martin N. Walton. [print]

Silence on God? An Exploration -- Bonhoeffer as Conversation Partner -- The Speechlessness of Church and Theology -- A Cautious Way with Words -- "The Word That Changes the World": Thoughts for a Day of Baptism -- The Crisis of Upper-Middle-Class Culture -- Reconciling and Redeeming, Shocking and Overwhelming (The Performative Power of the Word) -- "It Is Our Own Fault" (The Pragmatic Context) -- A Religionless Era -- A New Language -- What Remains Unsaid: The Bonhoeffer Family -- How He Spoke with Others -- Naturalness, Tact, and Simplicity (The Art of Conversation) -- The Aversion to the "Phraseological" (Karl Bonhoeffer) -- What Remains Unsaid (Religious Humanism) -- Pious Chatter (Experiences as a Youth in Church) -- Deus Dixit: The Profusion of the Word of God -- The Depth and the Weight of a Word -- "It Is God Who Must Speak on Sunday Morning" (The A Priori of Karl Barth) -- The Given Word (The Concentration on Christology) -- Christ as Idea and as Address -- The Inexpressible -- A Red Apple, a Glass of Cool Water: Proclamation in the Church -- The Poverty of the Word -- "It Is Christ Who Is the Word" (Lectures on Homiletics, 1935-39) -- The "Rules of Language" -- Waiting for the Word (A Meditative Approach to the Bible) -- Out of the Pulpit (Lectures on Spiritual Care, 1935-39) -- The Ears of God -- Qualified Silence -- The Credibility of the Church -- The Aristocratic Word: Resistance and Imprisonment -- The "Declericalization" of Proclamation -- "There Is Too Much Talk" (The Impotence and Misuse of Words).

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