Remembering the Darkest Cumberland Bibliophile Days of the 20th Century Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lu- man the only true life.” theran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissi- dent, and key founding member of the A compelling statement of the demands of...
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Remembering the Darkest Cumberland Bibliophile Days of the 20th Century Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lu- man the only true life.” theran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissi- dent, and key founding member of the A compelling statement of the demands of Confessing Church. His writings on Chris- sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man tianity's role in the secular world have be- whose life and thought were exemplary come widely influential, and his book The articulations of a new type of leadership Cost of Discipleship became a modern inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the classic. spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty. Besides his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposi- tion to Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later he was transferred t
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