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...Williams, his The Seven Descents of Myrtle was a bits-and-pieces montage snipped and pasted together from past works. Old dogs doing old tricks is nostalgically acceptable from performers like Maurice Chevalier or Marlene Dietrich, but coolly and perhaps cruelly rejectable from major playwrights. With eloquence and gallantry, Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon...
...Thomas Paine, who observed "My mind is my own church" set the tone for it. Today, dogma is rejected largely by the young, particularly those of us who have come of age in the 1960s. It was with awe and hope that we first heard the echoes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bomb-rocked prison. There, the 37-year-old theologian urged man to find Christ at the "center of life" by participating in the struggles of the world. This was the supreme religious act. For most, despite their imperiled souls, this was dogma enough, and a way to manifest...
...WHAT is bothering me is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today." So wrote the young Lutheran Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer from his Berlin prison cell in April 1944, one year before he was executed by the SS for complicity in the plots against Hitler's life. It is a question that today-for more complicated reasons-concerns countless thousands of U.S. churchgoers, who see about them a Christianity in the midst of change, confusion and disarray...
...contemporary fame of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German Protestant theologian who was executed in 1945 for taking part in the plots against Hitler, rests primarily on the Letters and Papers from Prison he wrote to friends and family. In these cryptic messages, most of them smuggled out of his cell in Berlin's Tegel Prison, Bonhoeffer outlined a new kind of secular theology for a "world come of age" that has become the axiomatic premise for post-Christian thought. Last week a new cache of Bonhoeffer letters came to light-revealed by the woman to whom...
...students in Finkenwalde; Maria, member of an aristocratic, landed family, was living nearby with her grandmother, who asked Bonhoeffer to include the girl in a confirmation class for Maria's older brother and two cousins. Bonhoeffer flunked her. "Whatever the reason," Maria recalls, "I remember that it caused Dietrich considerable amusement and my grandmother none at all." She also recalls one gathering when Bonhoeffer boasted that he had learned his first ten sermons by heart. Maria "quietly left the room for fear he might be tempted to prove his statement...