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		Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
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Strange glory : a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Charles Marsh.

by Marsh, Charles, 1958-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

230.044092 B714m

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts -- Biography.

Theologians -- Germany -- Biography.

Clergy -- Germany -- Biography.

Human rights workers -- Germany -- Biography.

Anti-Nazi movement -- Biography.

Christian biography.

9780307269812 (hc.)

0307269817 (hc.)

9780307390387 (pbk.)

0307390381 (pbk.)

x, 515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-487) and index.

Eternity's child -- "Italy is simply inexhaustible" -- University studies -- "Greetings from the matador" -- "Covered in the moss of tradition" -- "I heard the gospel preached in the Negro churches" -- "Under the constraint of grace" -- Theological storm troopers on the march -- Crying in the wilderness -- "A new kind of monasticism" -- "I must be a sojourner and a stranger" -- "Christmas amid the ruins" -- Killing the madman -- "The greatest of feasts on the journey to freedom."

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer is known in Christian circles for his book, The Cost of Discipleship. Thousands of Christians have read this book and been impacted by Bonhoeffer's call to take up one's cross and eschew what he called, "cheap grace." Bonhoeffer was ultimately imprisoned and executed by the Nazi government for his role in the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the decades since his execution, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. The scion of a grand family that rarely went to church, Dietrich decided as a thirteen-year-old to become a theologian. By twenty-one, the rather snobbish and awkward young man had already written a dissertation hailed by Karl Barth as a "theological miracle." His was a lifelong effort to recover an authentic and orthodox Christianity from the dilutions of liberal Protestantism and the modern idolatries of blood and nation -- which forces had left the German church completely helpless against the onslaught of Nazism. In 1930, his search for that true fellowship led Bonhoeffer to America for ten fateful months in the company of social reformers, Harlem churchmen, and public intellectuals. He went home with renewed vocation and took up ministry among Berlin's downtrodden while trying to find his place in the hoary academic establishment increasingly captive to nationalist fervor. With the rise of Hitler, the German church was Nazified, along with every other state-sponsored institution. But it was the Nuremberg laws that set Bonhoeffer's earthly life on an ineluctable path toward destruction. His denunciation of the race statutes as heresy and his insistence on the church's moral obligation to defend all victims of state violence, regardless of race or religion, alienated him from what would become the Reich church and even some fellow resistors. Soon the twenty-seven-year-old pastor was one of the most conspicuous dissidents in Germany. He would carry on subverting the regime and bearing Christian witness, whether in the pastorate he assumed in London, the Pomeranian monastery he established to train dissenting ministers, or in the worldwide ecumenical movement. Increasingly, though, Bonhoeffer would find himself a voice crying in the wilderness"--Provided by publisher.

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