"Christ Actually" by James Carroll
The title and much of the content of James Carroll"s highly informed and deeply personal rereading of the tradition of Jesus follows the question anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer asked from his prison cell during World War II: “[W]ho is …
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Book Review: "Strange Glory" by Charles Marsh
Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran, and his theology was stringent, complex and fraught with a kind of vital void, a meaning in meaninglessness that Christians were just beginning to piece together from the shards of modernism and its tidal violence. By …
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The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi
Dohnanyi recorded Nazi crimes, helped victims, did his best to sabotage Nazi policies, and eventually helped plot Hitler"s removal; Bonhoeffer fought the Nazis" efforts to control the German Protestant churches. For both men the regime"s treatment of …
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Faith Matters: Christ, not commercialism, is the only reason for Christmas
A key historical figure for Carroll is the German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed three weeks before the war ended in 1945 for conspiring in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1943. It"s from Bonhoeffer"s statement on his involvement …
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