"Resistance and Humility" is the most complete collection of letters, notes, poems, sermons and reflections written during 1943-1945 in Berlin's Tegel prison by German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bongeffer. These texts testified to the spiritual victory over the misanthropic political regime and made Bongeffer known to a wide readership. The texts had an explosive effect due to innovative and very radical views on Christianity and a unique experience of unshakable faith in the face of extraordinary life trials, uncertainties and doubts. Bongeffer's ideas, his courageous stance as a fighter against tyranny, and his tragic death in a concentration camp in the spring of 1945 for plotting against Hitler gave the book the status of one of the greatest and most influential theological works of the twentieth century.
The book remains relevant not only for theologians, theologians, philosophers and culturologists, but also for all who are interested in modern history and culture, the ways of Christianity in the modern world.