Saturday, February 4 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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**Dietrich Bonhoeffer

**Saturday, February 4 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian put to death by the Nazis, whose writings and life made him a modern martyr.

Raised in a distinguished but not particularly religious family, Bonhoeffer received his doctorate when he was 21 years old and went on to study ethics under Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary in New York. At that time, he also discovered the fervor and social consciousness of Harlem’s Abysssian Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday school. When he returned to Germany in the early 1930s, Bonhoeffer was confronted with Hitler’s reign and responded by openly condemning Nazi persecution of the Jews and challenging his church to stand with the Jewish people in their time of need. He eventually became part of the resistance movement and joined a conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and moved him from prison to a concentration camp. On April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of World War II, he was hanged by the Nazis at the age of 39.

In this short profile, Bob Abernethy explores how Bonhoeffer became an inspiring symbol for millions of Christians by putting into practice what he believed.

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**Dietrich Bonhoeffer

**Saturday, February 4 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian put to death by the Nazis, whose writings and life made him a modern martyr.

Raised in a distinguished but not particularly religious family, Bonhoeffer received his doctorate when he was 21 years old and went on to study ethics under Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary in New York. At that time, he also discovered the fervor and social consciousness of Harlem’s Abysssian Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday school. When he returned to Germany in the early 1930s, Bonhoeffer was confronted with Hitler’s reign and responded by openly condemning Nazi persecution of the Jews and challenging his church to stand with the Jewish people in their time of need. He eventually became part of the resistance movement and joined a conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and moved him from prison to a concentration camp. On April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of World War II, he was hanged by the Nazis at the age of 39.

In this short profile, Bob Abernethy explores how Bonhoeffer became an inspiring symbol for millions of Christians by putting into practice what he believed.

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From what I have heard and read, this man was a faithful and holy servant of our Lord Jesus Christ. As long as he was not an anti-Catholic, I bet that he now enjoys the blessedness of the beatific vision. May me pray for his soul and honour his memory as a great example of the Christian life.

 

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LatinCat:

From what I have heard and read, this man was a faithful and holy servant of our Lord Jesus Christ. As long as he was not an anti-Catholic, I bet that he now enjoys the blessedness of the beatific vision. May me pray for his soul and honour his memory as a great example of the Christian life.

From what I’ve read, Bonhoeffer was not anti-Catholic. In fact, during WW 2 (after the Nazis banned him from teaching and preaching), he was a guest at a Catholic monastery for a while (I believe he was working on the book Ethics).

 

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**Dietrich Bonhoeffer

**Saturday, February 4 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian put to death by the Nazis, whose writings and life made him a modern martyr.

Raised in a distinguished but not particularly religious family, Bonhoeffer received his doctorate when he was 21 years old and went on to study ethics under Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary in New York. At that time, he also discovered the fervor and social consciousness of Harlem’s Abysssian Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday school. When he returned to Germany in the early 1930s, Bonhoeffer was confronted with Hitler’s reign and responded by openly condemning Nazi persecution of the Jews and challenging his church to stand with the Jewish people in their time of need. He eventually became part of the resistance movement and joined a conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and moved him from prison to a concentration camp. On April 9, 1945, less than a month before the end of World War II, he was hanged by the Nazis at the age of 39.

In this short profile, Bob Abernethy explores how Bonhoeffer became an inspiring symbol for millions of Christians by putting into practice what he believed.

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The ultimate repudiation of the idea that christianity is a suicide pact ! Even for pacifists there shold be a limit and in this case the limit was Hitler !