The Cost of Moral Leadership: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote:What comes across for me most strongly in the book is how much Bonhoeffer's writings and actions were a direct response to the Nazi government and the acquiesence of the German Lutheran Church....
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In good times, religious leaders think that they have reinvented the church. In bad times they seek wisdom from those who have gone before them. No wonder, then, that many now ask what Dietrich...
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Quote: The book is probably most famous, and most important, for its idea of religionless Christianity--an idea Bonhoeffer did not live long enough fully to develop, but whose timeliness only...
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Quote:In his hearing before the Gestapo during his imprisonment, defenseless and powerless as he then was only fortified by the word of God in his heart, he stood erect and unbroken before his...
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Quote:Some of the most influential passages in all his writings are his notes for an outline for a book at which he worked all the time he was in prison, but which he kept with him until the day he...
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The table fellowship of Christians implies obligation. It is OUR daily bread that we eat, not my own. We share our bread. Thus we are firmly bound to one another and not only in the Spirit but in our...
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Quote:The Psalmist was lamenting that he was despised and rejected of men, and that is an essential quality of the suffering of the cross. But this notion has ceased to be intelligible to a...
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Quote:Dietrich Bonhoffer, that great German "Man of God" who boldly stood against Hitler in the darkest days of the Third Reich, once said that from the moment we accept Christ, we are day by day...
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The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the first, and strongest, voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. An acclaimed preacher, pacifist and author, Bonhoeffer came to the famed Abyssinian...
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From the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of AMAZING GRACE, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler.A...
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Bonhoeffer offers clues to being church in ‘religionless’ eastern GermanyAfter the Second World War, more than 80 per cent of the population of eastern Germany belonged to the Protestant church.Yet...
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I recently took a seminary class that dealt with traditions in Christian devotion, and one of the assignments was to pick a classic Christian book and do a report on it. I chose Cost of Discipleship...
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