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Department of Religious Studies

From phraseology to reality : a "theological geography" : Bonhoeffer's early travels and the notion of the boundary

Abstract

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This thesis examines Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "turning from the phraseological to the real" during his early journeys abroad as recorded in his diary notes and letters. Our interest in the maps and stories of travels operative in Bonhoeffer's life coincides with a prevalence of metaphors of travel and displacement in contemporary literary and cultural criticism and acknowledges the movements of "powerful" travellers across boundaries and continents in the context of imperialism and colonialism.

Degree

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Department of Religious Studies
Year dc:date.issued
2004

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Steiner, Robert
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • De Gruchy, John

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Language dc:language.iso
eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6046
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6046

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Steiner, Robert. From phraseology to reality : a "theological geography" : Bonhoeffer's early travels and the notion of the boundary. Department of Religious Studies, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6046