Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Our Time
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian who stood up to Hitler as he threatened to destroy the core of the German church. The Nazis imposed anti-Semitic rules on their approved Protestant church, disgusting Bonhoeffer, as at the very least this denied the Jewishness of Jesus. He helped set up a breakaway church to keep Christian values alive until the Nazis fell.Bonhoeffer was executed for conspiring to kill Hitler but not before setting up his ideas in writing. With these and his example, he became, according to at least one of my guests, the most important theologian of the 20th century.
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