Rev. Dr. Scott Peddie

I’ve just come across this fascinating interview with Martin Marty who recently appeared at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest to talk about his book, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’: A Biography.”   Marty was in discussion with Owen Youngman, professor of Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University’s Medill School.

There are a number of biographies of Bonhoeffer, but this book is completely different – Marty charts the life of Bonhoeffer’s book and the impact it has had and how this has changed over time.

Marty’s book is part of a new series produced by Princeton University Press.  The others, which are available at the moment, include Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography. G. Wills and The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. D.S. Lopez, Jr. The others, which are planned for the future are as follows:

• The Book of Revelation: A Biography
  — Bruce Chilton
• The Analects of Confucius: A Biography
  –Annping Chin & Jonathan D. Spence
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
  –John J. Collins
• The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography
  — Richard H. Davis
• Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography
  — Martin Goodman
• John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography
  — Bruce Gordon
• The Book of Mormon: A Biography
  — Paul Gutjahr
• The Book of Genesis: A Biography
  — Ronald S. Hendel
• The Book of Job: A Biography
  — Mark Larrimore
• The Lotus Sutra: A Biography
  — Donald S. Lopez
• The Greatest Translations of All Time: A Biography of the Septuagint and the Vulgate
  — Jack Miles
• The Passover Haggadah: A Biography
  — Vanessa Ochs
• The Song of Songs: A Biography
  — Ilana Pardes
• Rumi’s Masnavi: A Biography
  — Omid Safi
• The I Ching: A Biography
  — Richard J. Smith
• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A Biography
  — David Gordon White