Bonhoeffer
Americannoun
noun
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Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
What’s missing are the character nuances that speak to hard times under a divided church, and how that affected Bonhoeffer the man and a citizen, not just the servant of God.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
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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