Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Germany
- Born: Feb 4, 1906
- Died: Apr 9, 1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic.
Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later he was transferred to a Nazi concentration camp. After being allegedly associated with the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was briefly tried, along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr, and then executed by hanging on 9 April 1945 as the Nazi regime collapsed, just two weeks before Allied forces liberated the camp and three weeks before Hitler's suicide.
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
God & truth
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
society
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
society
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
politics
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
God
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
religion
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
relationships