A Quiet Reformer : An Introduction to Edmund Schlink's Life and Ecumenical Theology : From a Gospel Voice in Nazi Germany to a New Vision of Christian Unity

Edmund Schlink was one of the most important theologians in Germany and in the ecumenical movement of the past half century. This biography follows his career, beginning in the early 1930s as Hitler rose to power. Not a heroic figure like Bonhoefffer, Schlink spent the war years in service of the Word of God in the church, nurturing people. In those critical times he redefined confessional Lutheran Theology