Download or read book Act and Being written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor.