Mark Thiessen Nation, professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, will present a lecture, “Bonhoeffer the Assassin?: Challenging a Myth, Recovering Costly Grace,” at a university colloquium 3 ...

A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends. One autumn morning in 2016, during a season shot through with loneliness, ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in 1945, two weeks before his fellow prisoners were liberated from the Flossenbürg concentration camp, which doesn’t do much for one’s sense of justice.

You have to read Eric Metaxas with bifocals. With the upper lens you read the Metaxas of the book, an engaging narrative by an experienced writer who presents Bonhoeffer as a Christian hero led by God ...

The contemporary fame of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German Protestant theologian who was executed in 1945 for taking part in the plots against Hitler, rests primarily on the Letters and Papers ...

In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned some extreme words: “When Christ calls a person, he bids him come and die.” Unfortunately, those words were personally prophetic. In April 1943, the Gestapo ...

The complicated legacy of the anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But Bonhoeffer is known to history not simply as a victim of Nazi horror but as a theologian of note. His appeal is startlingly ...

In almost every lecture I have ever given on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, someone has asked this question: Are we in a Bonhoeffer moment? It is usually a question about some current issue of moral urgency, a ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian from Germany executed by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39 for his role in a resistance movement that included attempts to assassinate German leader ...

The theologian set aside his nearly finished magnum opus while in prison, investing instead in creative writing. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” “A Christian’s secular vocation ...