Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Holocaust- Victim, Perpetrator and Bystander Research Essay During the Holocaust, many daily dilemmas surfaced that evoked various reactions from groups and individuals in society. In response to these dilemmas, these groups and individuals made choices that defined them as either perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, victims, or rescuers. These groups include the Church in Aryan territories, and the Hitler Youth. Both of these groups have placed themselves in various points along this…

Comparatively, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditations on Psalms, Dietrich timidly speaks out about the imprecatory prayers saying, “In our Psalm, that terrible prayer that begins, which we dread, which we repeat only with trembling and deep inner resistance’ when we read it.” Here Bonhoeffer is resisting, and teaching to resist reading parts of the Holy Scripture that God revealed. The Word of God takes…

Among the countries of the ancient Near East divine creation was not a notion or belief instituted by the Israelites alone. Within the sociopolitical context of the Ancient Near East there existed differing creation cosmologies all of which intended to explain and define existence by having and understanding function within an ordered and created system. This holds true for the Genesis creation story as well. When the first chapters of Genesis are read, we begin to understand how God wanted…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, states that “Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”(44) Simply put, the things we find to be condemning traits in others could very well be the same traits we possess. This same statement is a strong theme demonstrated throughout the entire story; the misfit and the grandmother played a vital role in…

The phrase, “do what you love,” is a saying many of us use when it comes to choosing a college major or a career. However, one person questions that phrase by asking if it is “wisdom or malarkey” (Pg. 1). That person is Gordon Marino and he is a philosophy professor at St. Olaf College. His article, called, “A Life Beyond Do What You Love,” questions the famous motto by saying that sometimes we should not do what we love, but rather do other things that will make the world around us better. Dr.…

My Responsibility to America When the pilgrims endured their first winter at Plymouth, they did not have to stay with the high risk of death. It would have been far more beneficial to them to go back to Europe and deal with the religious rules, but they knew that it would help future generations even more if they stayed to start a country. This is the mindset we need to adopt, today. In America, today, you will rarely find a person who cares more about the country America is becoming than the…

I would identify as a young adult in some areas and parent in others. Firstly, I will state that I did not want to pursue this degree. Indeed, the Lord has a sense of humor. Every time this pathway opened, I would plead like Jonah to find someone else, But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. (Jonah 1:3)…

According to a leading research study institute, The Barna Group, reported nearly six in ten (59%) young Christians end up becoming inactive church members or fall away from the faith. Another book entitled, Already Gone, based on a 2009 research from American’s Research Group revealed that two thirds of young people are leaving the church when they go to college. Devil’s thrust directed at the youth embraced the formation of a postmodern attitude and emergence of superficial Christianity. The…

Adolf Hitler’s hateful ideology concerning Jewish residents in Germany began during World War II in 1939. Hitler was adamant in his beliefs that Jews were inferior to any other faith, and because of his unorthodox views he rounded up all of the Jews within Germany and exterminated them. Approximately six million women, children, and men were exterminated in the name of Hitler’s beliefs, which became known as the Holocaust. Hitler’s ideology led millions of people throughout Germany to abandon…

result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). Atticus Finch is an attorney in the county of Maycomb and the father of the protagonist, Scout, and her Brother Jem. He is a utilitarian who believes one should always live honestly and that living an honest life is important.…