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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈbɔnhøːfɐ] ⓘ; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
During World War II, Bonhoeffer and other family members were part of a secret anti-Hitler conspiracy within the German intelligence service. Bonhoeffer carried messages to foreign contacts and helped arrange the passage of 14 Jews to safety in Switzerland. Bonhoeffer knew of and supported an ultimately unsuccessful plan to assassinate Hitler.
Unlike Bonhoeffer's later writings, The Cost of Discipleship has been widely read by both conservative and liberal Christians and is still read and quoted today. [ citation needed ] The term "cheap grace" was coined by The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. , then-pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NY.
Bonhoeffer writes that when a person strays from Christianity, it is the problem of the entire group - and their responsibility - to get him on the right track again. In the offset of his work he expresses his conviction that the Church is not a desire, nor the product of desire, nor a wish, a dream, or visionary hope.
Meusel and Bonhoeffer condemned the failure of the Confessing Church – which was organized specifically in resistance to governmental interference in religion – to move beyond its very limited concern for religious civil liberties and to focus instead on helping the suffering Jews.
The Bonhoeffer family is a German family that, though originating in the city of Nijmegen, has been documented in the city of Schwäbisch Hall from 1513 onwards. Among the family's most notable members are Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Klaus Bonhoeffer , both executed in the last days of World War II by Adolf Hitler 's government for their different ...
In April 1943, the Gestapo arrested Bonhoeffer and Dohnanyi for their part in the scheme, which they had been alerted to because of the use of Abwehr funds in the operation. [ 3 ] Bonhoeffer's involvement in Operation 7 was one of the pieces of evidence used by Stephen A. Wise in the petition for his inclusion in the Yad Vashem list of ...
Bonhoeffer interviewed her and refused to have her join the class due to her "immaturity". Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer were reintroduced seven years later when Bonhoeffer was on a writing retreat at Ruth von Kleist-Retzow's country home, Klein-Krössin. Notwithstanding their age difference of 18 years — she was 18 years old and he was 36 ...