Dietrich Bonhoeffer Catholic Church

4 february 1906 9 april 1945 was a lutheran pastor theologian anti nazi dissident and key founding member of the confessing church his writings on christianity s role in the secular world have become widely influential and his book the cost of discipleship has been described as a modern classic.

Dietrich bonhoeffer catholic church. In 1942 clements notes bonhoeffer returned to rome and it was evidence of a most remarkable feature of his life while a resister. The reformation does not represent the state as a community arising from the created nature of man writes bonhoeffer. Born in breslau germany on 4 february 1906 dietrich bonhoeffer moved to berlin in 1912 when his father karl bonhoeffer became professor of psychiatry at the university of berlin.

You can check this in volume 14 of the dietrichbonhoefferwerke dbw illegale theologenausbildung in finkenwalde 1935 1937 bonhoeffer s aufsatz über kirchengemeinschaft. Dietrich bonhoeffer 1906 1945 was a man whose life and virtues every christian man should know and emulate. Bonhoeffer was a genius theologian an excellent musician a solid athlete and simply a.

New york city n y jul 25 2010 08 07 am mt discussing his recent and critically acclaimed book on dietrich bonhoeffer the famed lutheran theologian who was killed in the 1940s for. Dietrich bonhoeffer was a pastor and a theologian. The magisterial reformers however took a rather different perspective.

Bonhoeffer regarded submission under the pope like submission under the nazi church. Even a cursory reading of his biography bonhoeffer. His family was well educated gifted closely knit and part of upper middle class privileged society.

We can use him as an example of christian charity and martyrdom but we cannot invoke him as a saint of the catholic church. Pastor martyr prophet spy gives one the sense that he achieved that fully human life that all men desire but so few obtain. The roman catholic church following aristotle sees the state or government as the natural product of human nature.

A growing engagement with roman catholic life and thought. He had a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil. Bonhoeffer was a member of the igel pronounced eagle fraternity at tübingen university in 1923.