Bonhoeffer
Americannoun
noun
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During the service, a video was broadcast of Jin and others singing a hymn adapted from a poem Bonhoeffer wrote shortly before his execution.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
He enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in New York City where writings by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer —who denounced Hitler’s Nazi regime — galvanized his passion for social justice.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2022
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once warned that “silence in the face of evil is evil is evil itself.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2022
Emceeing the event was evangelical radio host Eric Metaxas, author of a bestselling biography of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a key figure in building an alliance between conservative evangelicals and Roman Catholics.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2022
And the Reverend Peters was the invigilator and he sat at a desk while I did the exam and he read a book called The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and ate a sandwich.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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