Post your reviews and recommendations of books, articles, or other resources in German; or resources in English about the language, country, culture, or about theology.
LawPundit followed a link from Jim Chen’s Jurisdynamics through us to Literatur Podcast.
I have added a sub-page devoted to Bonhoeffer Sources. Check it out.
Chrisendom has a link to an article by Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Graf on academic theology.
Chrisendom has this link to a Christival festival this summer. On December 11, 2007, Chris also provided links to “two great online videos” in German: One a debate over faith vs. atheism, the other featuring Hans Küng.
“The Bonhoefferian” is devoted to Bonhoeffer. In contains some good reviews and articles, including a link to an excellent article “Ten Theses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Christian, Theologian, Martyr” in Faith and Theology and notice of an International Conference on Bonhoeffer in Prague, July, 22-27, 2008.
Der Spiegel is one of Germany’s leading news magazines, with sections on Politics, News, Sports, Culture, and so forth. It is available free online. I clicked on “Kultur” and saw a streaming video add for Jodi Fosters new movie, “Fremde in Dir.” The photos can help with vocabulary recognition.
I found a couple of articles today (9/26/07) that interest me: One on X-raying the Dead Sea Scrolls, and another on Mountain biking in the Dolomites of South Tirol, in Austria on the Italian border.
The Berliner Morgenpost is also online, and also has lots of photographs.
Google Books has made Heinrich von Kleist’s classic novel, published in 1810, Michael Kohlhaas (see Lesestücke, 1a) available in digitized form (with an English introduction and the German text in Gothic type) here. Martin Luther makes an appearance in the novel. Evidently this is based on history; there are references in Luther’s letters to Kohlhaas. A brief introduction to Kleist and the novel is available at the Literary Encyclopedia.
Wright State University’s Germanic Studies Association has an online journal community. You have to apply for membership and be approved to see what’s available on the site, which I have not done yet, but there are some interesting links on the front page, including a downloadable German dictionary.
Münsteraner Forum fur Theologie und Kirche is a complete online journal.
In 2006, Aldo Parmegianni interviewed Jürgen Moltmann on his 80th birthday, for Radio Vatikan. The interview sums up the major themes of Moltmann’s life work. Both the text and the audio (Real Audio) are available. I have posted some vocabulary helps, beginning here.
BibelTV has more recently done a 9-minute interview with Professor Moltmann. The audio and video quality are excellent.
A new web site celebrates the upcoming 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin. Calvin 09 gives the options of English, French, Deutsch, or Spanish. Click on “Actio” and you can download, among other writings, the Institutes in French or English.
Wieland Willker is a chemist in Bremen, who is a serious amateur NT scholar and textual critic. His web site includes a bibliography of books in German on NT Greek, and a Greek-German NT vocabulary list. His site also includes a massive textual commentary in English on the GNT.
This page has the following sub pages.
Theological German/Theologisches Deutsch 
Your website is very useful. I also created a blog similar to yours: Theological French (http://lou9587.wordpress.com)
Regards,
Lou
Très bien! Thanks, I will check ours out.
Not a problem Mark!
Jim West posts a link to an article on “Christliche Fundis” in idea.de.
Ron Ratliffe sent this review to me:
Review of Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille)
In a day and age when movies whiz by at break neck speed (think the Bourne movies)—and if there are no special effects they are gone in a few weeks—this film is wholly other. Into Great Silence, three hours in length, follows the French Carthusian monks as they go about their lives of contemplation and prayer. Not a good story line for a film you might think? Well, you’d be wrong.
The glory of this film is the deliberately slow pace, the care it takes to linger and wait, the way it dares the viewers to stay with it. Director Philip Groning approached the monks about twenty years ago, asking if he could come and film them. They replied that when they were ready, they’d let him know. Sixteen years passed before Groning obtained permission for cameras to come to their secluded monastery in the French Alps.
The Carthusian’s are one of the most secluded and private of orders; so having this chance to gaze into their world is a rare treat. The camera catches the monks at prayer, eating, cutting their hair, at chapel, at play in the snow, caring for their monastery, and much more. The viewer is struck by how everything the monks do is done deliberately and without hurry.
As the seasons change around them the monk’s continue doing what they do all the time and seem completely unaffected by the world outside their monastery. After a while you begin to feel yourself slowing down and taking the time to listen, to be quiet inside, and to appreciate the life these few men have chosen. Before you realize it the film has ended and you still think there’s at least another hour to go.
With virtually no talking, no music and no sound this film’s title is to be taken literally. You enter into a great silence and come out on the other side profoundly moved. When I saw this film in the theatre I was saddened to see some people leave long before it was over. A pity. In a hustle bustle life where we’ve all but lost the ability to sit and reflect and be quiet inside the monks have much to teach us if we will but stop and wait. Experience Into Great Silence for yourself. A suggestion: turn off your cell phone and watch the film through without stopping. You’ll be glad you did.
Ron Ratliff