From “The Making of a Disciple” by Robert Coles in DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (Modern Spiritual Masters Series, Orbis Books, 1998): The heart of Bonhoeffer’s spiritual legacy to us is not to be found in his ...
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer died on April 9, 1945, few would have predicted his influence on theology at the beginning of the 21st century. As word of his execution reached his friends and colleagues ...
Martyred German pastor showed theology has consequences. Last month marked 65 years since the doomed Nazi regime hanged German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer on April 9, 1945. Christians ...
In almost every lecture I have ever given on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, someone has asked this question: Are we in a Bonhoeffer moment? It is usually a question about some current issue of moral urgency, a ...
Foremost among the theological influences on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s generation was the development of the Confessing Church. German Protestant Christianity was not a particularly likely place for ...
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He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich ...
Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end - for me the beginning of life.” It was – more than he knew. Even ...