blockversewordysbillionaire.aiyourlistWhiteboardAppquizieunschool

News

Home
Popular
Elections

Genius — OpenServe

Sponsored

Wondrously sheltered — latest news, discussion & facts — IJR

Wondrously sheltered

Topic

Wondrously sheltered

Poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1944, made a hymn with several melodies

0members1here now

Ask Genius Site

Feed Discussions About

Sort by

Content type

Loading

Latest Wondrously sheltered news and discussion

Sort by

Content type

Nothing published yet

The conversation starts anyway — post the first discussion above.

About Wondrously sheltered

"Von guten Mächten" is a Christian poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1944 while imprisoned in the basement prison of the Reich Security Main Office because of his resistance to the Nazis. It is his last theological text before he was executed on 9 April 1945. It became a frequently sung hymn, with different melodies, which has appeared in current German hymnals. The incipit is: "Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben", which can be translated literally as: "By good forces devotedly and quietly surrounded", or, in a more poetic, singable, widely used version: "By loving forces silently surrounded, ...". The seventh and last stanza "Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen" respectively "By loving forces wonderfully sheltered" is used as a refrain in this popular rendition.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Dietrich Bonhoeffer via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

0

members

1

here now

Everything about Wondrously sheltered →

Live room · 1 here

Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.

Wondrously sheltered across IJR

Ask Genius by OpenServe about Wondrously sheltered Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos