09 Jul With Bound Hands: The Life and Selected Prison Letters of Alfred Delp
Alfred Delp, S.J., a widely admired pastor, youth leader and intellectual, was executed by the Nazis on February 2, 1945, in Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. During the six months before his execution, the shackled priest painfully wrote a stream of deeply moving letters, meditations, and prayers which were smuggled out to friends and family members.
These writings reveal a man profoundly changed in the crucible of suffering—a once-arrogant, impatient priest transformed into a herald of hope and grace. With Bound Hands tells the absorbing story of Alfred Delp—a Jesuit hero who found redemption as he plumbed the depths of evil.
Reviews
“Well researched, engaging, and ultimately moving….”
–- Joseph M. Malham, author of By Fire into Light: Four Catholic Martyrs of the Nazi Camps.
“….a lucid, scholarly, and inspirational contribution to the ongoing analysis of this dark period in our history.”
— Dr. Donald Dietrich, professor of theology, Boston College.
“With Bound Hands is a fascinating and carefully crafted story of the cloak-and-dagger world during the brutality of the Nazi regime.”
-— The Catholic Register
“With Bound Hands stands as an enduring testament against the Nazis and their crimes….”
-— Midwest Book Review