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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Author: Eric Metaxis

While Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German state church (Lutheran) pastor, we Methodists can learn much from him. In particular conservatives who feel outside the liberal mainstream will identify with Bonhoeffer. This biography describes his coming to faith, education, and growing sense of religious identity, and his efforts to remain true to the faith in spite of overwhelming odds against him. Metaxis explores the side of Bonhoeffer not often lifted up in his popularity across the theological spectrum. In particular we see his disillusionment with American liberalism. Highly recommended.

WHO BETTER TO FACE THE GREATEST EVIL OF THE 20TH CENTURY THAN A HUMBLE MAN OF FAITH?
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author. In this New York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson; Repeat edition (August 30, 2011)
ISBN-10: 1595552464
ISBN-13: 978-1595552464

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