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The real Bonhoeffer’s failure to radicalize German churches against Nazi antisemitism (a failure that informed his understanding of Christian ethics as a dead end) is in the movie a rousing ...
Bonhoeffer had resisted Adolf Hitler's National Socialist dictatorship not with weapons, but with words, deeds, and unwavering faith. He went from being a preacher to a conspirator.
Bonhoeffer was proven naïve, of course; when the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Center Party signed the Enabling Act, empowering Hitler “to assume dictatorial powers in Germany” and ...
If it had been released just two years ago, "Bonhoeffer" might have come across as simply the latest in a long line of respectable but predictable period dramas about brave Germans who dared to ...
Bonhoeffer’s fight against the Nazis and his own church for doing nothing in the face of the rise of Adolf Hitler has been well documented in theological circles because of his own extensive and ...
Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.” He ...
If it had been released just two years ago, “Bonhoeffer” might have come across as simply the latest in a long line of respectable but predictable period dramas about brave Germans who dared ...
A group of Bonhoeffer scholars — and the theologian’s descendants — have had enough. In a statement issued Friday (Oct. 18) members of the International Bonhoeffer Society called on Metaxas ...
Bonhoeffer knew the way that Christ renewed Israel: through incarnation, sharing joys and sorrows, facing the passion, being crucified, and being raised. He allowed his life to follow the same ...
Bonhoeffer said he “heard the Gospel preached in the Negro churches,” and it sounded refreshingly different from the somber Lutheranism of the north German plains.