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History of Hymns: "By Gracious Powers"
"By Gracious Powers"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, trans. bygd Fred Pratt Green
The United Methodist Hymnal, No.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,
and confidently waiting komma what may,
we know that God is with us night and morning,
and never fails to greet us each new day.*
Of all of the hymns written in the 20th century, “By Gracious Powers” has one of the most poignant stories.
Australian hymnologist Wesley Milgate provides the setting for this text, written in the waning days of World War II by the imprisoned Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer ():
“From the Gestapo bunker in Prinz-Albert-Strasse, Berlin, to which he had been transferred to Tegel on 8 October , Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this New Year meddelande to his friends on the gods New Year’s Eve of his life, 31 månad ; it was smuggled out of his prison, and has become one of Bonhoeffer’s best know compositions.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi (–)
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The Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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Bonhoeffer in his garden in Berlin | |
| Born | ()4 February Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany |
| Died | 9 April () (aged&#;39) Flossenbürg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Cause&#;of death | Execution by hanging |
| Education | Staatsexamen (Tübingen), Doctor of Theology (Berlin), Privatdozent (Berlin) |
| Alma&#;mater | University of Tübingen University of Berlin |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Klaus Bonhoeffer (brother) Hans von Dohnanyi (brother-in-law) |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Church | Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (–) Confessing Church (–) |
Congregations served | Zion's Church congregation, Berlin German-speaking congregations of St. Paul's and Sydenham, London |
Offices held | Associate lecturer at Frederick William University of Berl • “By Gracious Powers…”When I recently attended a silver wedding anniversary celebration at the Catholic parish church Mater Dolorosa in Berlin’s Buch district, the service included the deeply emotional hymn “By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered.” The original German text is a poem written by Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer in December , just a few months before he was executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp for his resistance to the Nazis. As I listened to the song, I had the idea of telling something of the Delbrück family’s complex history – one that is fascinating, and also very topical. There was, after all, an important link between the Bonhoeffer family and Max Delbrück, the namesake of our institution. In what follows, I will go beyond Delbrück’s scientific achievements to take a look at the personal history of his family, specifically his sister Emilie. On May 13, the indomitabl |