Dietrich Bonhoeffer

However, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young theologian and pastor in London, returned to Germany and stood against the Third Reich. He published his famous work titled, “The Cost of Discipleship” in 1937. This work applied the message given by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount to contemporary living during this prelude to war. After facing much persecution, Bonhoeffer stand against the Nazi led to his eventual arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. During his time in a concentration camp, Bonhoeffer continued…

John Robertson published a book in 1963 titled, “Honest to God”, which Robertson reflected off Ronald Smiths 1970 book “The Doctrine of God” adhering to the primacy of secularization that mimics Harvey Cox in secularism. Robertson used some of Bonhoeffers analysis, along with other theologians as Tillich and Bultmann, that resented God in a pantheistic and mystical term, appealing to a secular culture that have a more post enlightenment views of ultimacy that would become more acceptable to…

Germany (now Poland). From 1935 to 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as pastor, administrator, and teacher at an underground seminary there. He insisted that if seminarians were to learn about and lead within the Christian community, they must also enter into and learn the practical disciplines of the Christian faith in community. This led to the formation of a community house‖ where those involved in seminary education would share life together. Here, Bonhoeffer put into practice the conviction…

home, determined to trade theological platitudes for concrete action. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Dr. Martin Luther King shared the belief that God has given humanity certain natural rights, and they believed that each individual must be afford those rights to create what King called the beloved community. However, the two men differ on what rights merit concrete direct action and which should be left to the providence…

increase my faith, and also the magnitude of faith when it pertains to Christianity. In his document, Discipleship and the Cross, Dietrich Bonhoeffer examines the Christian faith in this aspect. He goes on then to offer a detailed description of what he believes it one’s faith should embody. In this article, there were positively some brilliant declarations that Bonhoeffer disclosed that genuinely line up with my thoughts on Christian faith. In the duration of this paper, I would like to…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an individual who widely understood the term of “suffering”. As a German pastor, he made it clearly known in several books and studies that his own life was one of uniqueness. Though his beliefs had been perceived as illegal or questionable, his preachings had been labeled as definitely unique standing in a category all alone. As he was imprisoned and later executed, along with several co-conspirators, his studies were not published until after his death. One amazing…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is often celebrated as a “prophet of justice for the op-pressed” who identified the need “to see the great events of world history from below” (Guth, 2013). As a theologian of resistance his writing, teaching and acting during the Nazi regime in Germany, impacted immensely on the community, the Church, and politics and provides significance for today’s society. In the following, Bonhoeffer’s background will be explored, how he impact-ed during his time and why, it will be…

In my Master of Divinity program I wrote a paper entitled, “What is the place of work in the Christian Life?” That paper was a reflection on Lee Hardy’s book, The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice and the Design of Human Work. While Hardy’s work began with an examination of Greek thought in regards to work and leisure, as represented by the works Plato and Aristotle, a contemporary piece might begin with Working, by Studs Terkel, moving from work into theology, as…

In today story is about "comparing the Holocaust to Armenia". Today I'll be talking about comparing the holocaust to Armenia. First, I'll be talking about aggressor and target group. Second, I'll be talking about what actually occurred. Final, I'll be talking about what were the outcome of the Holocaust. The aggressors was Hitler and his German soldiers that did the bad things. They did bad things to the Jews and their family's. They were killing them, making them go into the death showers, and…

the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:6-11 ESV). Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in Christ the Center, “Even as the risen one, Jesus Christ remains the man Jesus in time and space. Because Jesus Christ is human, he is present in time and space; because Jesus Christ is God, he is eternally…