Lenoir-Rhyne College Center For Theology To Offer Free Course On Bonhoeffer

The Lenoir-Rhyne College Center for Theology will offer a free course this fall on The Life and Teaching of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The only charge will be for the textbook and copying of various class hand-outs.

The course will be taught by Dr. Larry Yoder, religion professor at the college. This year is the centennial of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906), the brilliant young German theologian who was executed – martyred – by the Nazis at Flossenburg on April 9, 1945. The class will read and discuss Bonhoeffer’s chief theological and ethical works, as well as explore his contributions to his own time, his legacy for theological discourse, and the implications of his life and work for our time.

The class will meet at 7-9 p.m. on Mondays in Newton Hall of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church of Hickory. The texts will be available in the college bookstore, located in the Lenoir-Rhyne College Cromer Center.

This course is suitable for both clergy and interested lay persons. Register for the course by calling Beverly Hefner at 828-328-7376 or hefnerb@lrc.edu. The course will begin on Monday evening, Aug. 28, and continue on Monday evenings through the semester.

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