Bonhoeffer : Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

from DeaconBernie

A truly great book about a truly great man. From other sources, I was determined to read about this man. Imagine my surprise when I was at my local library recently and this book was prominently displayed. The book is more than I expected but it is everything I wanted. Describing Bonhoeffer as a ...

from jd234512

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is someone that is widely recognized(and surprisingly largely uncontested) in the catholic church as being extremely influential and a pillar of true faith. I have read a couple of his books and have been extremely challenged by his call to community(before it was popular!) an...

from patl

I have long been a disciple of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . His Life Together, Cost of discipleship and Ethics have all been amazingly rich for me. I knew something of the biographical sketch of the man, but not as much as I would like.This book rounds out that knowledge very well. The author paints a d...

from bogopea

Brilliantly researched and written story of a man I never heard of before. And not just him but his family and fellow agents/friends who tried to rewrite history. I learned a lot about Hitler, Germany and WWII that I didn't know. A book worth reading even though with 600+ pages and the heaviness ...

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This book has been on my to-read list for a while, and it feels good to finally cross it off. Bonhoeffer's story is worth sharing. Educated as a theologian, raised as a scientist under a German psychiatrist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived his life in rejection of the German state-church which was coop...