The Story Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich bonhoeffer was born on february 6 1906.

The story of dietrich bonhoeffer. Tragically 74 years after dietrich bonhoeffer s death at the hands of nazi executioners white supremacist nationalism has resurged as a growing global and violent threat. In between dietrich bonhoeffer was a lutheran theologian a. He was martyred two months and three days into his thirty ninth year.

4 1906 april 9 1945 was a protestant lutheran pastor theologian and active in the german resistance to the policies of hitler and nazism. I didn t love the style of writing but i m appreciative of van dyke for writing this story. On april 9 1945 lutheran pastor and theologian dietrich bonhoeffer is hanged at flossenburg only days before the american liberation of the pow camp.

He was martyred on april 9 1945 as a direct order by hitler himself while bonhoeffer was in a concentration camp. Compassionate minister brilliant thinker opponent of hitler and the nazis proved the adage that the greater the struggle the greater the story. God will not leave him alone until he works to destroy the nazis.

Bonhoeffer s actions and writings attest to his beliefs that true grace is costly and true christianity brings a voice to the voiceless. 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. In 1930 dietrich bonhoeffer was a.

Bonhoeffer fights his own lutheran church and nazis for the church s soul in the 1930 s. Dietrich bonhoeffer s letters and papers from prison bonhoeffer graduated from the university of berlin in 1927 at age 21 and then spent some months in spain as an assistant pastor to a german. In light of bonhoeffer s life death and reflection on costly grace i have to wonder what the cost of discipleship looks like today.