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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
 | | As unsettling as Bonhoeffer's Ethics may be, it is a refreshing call to the contemporary church to repent and return to a life characterized by prayer, the traditional mark of the early church. | | | These letters contain Bonhoeffer's consideration of the secularization of the world and the departure from religion in the twentieth century. | | | It is here that Bonhoeffer makes one of his most enduring claims on the life of the true Christian. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/bonhoeffer.html
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For humiliation, and for the sadistic whim of the SS-staff present, all four men were forced to strip down completely in their cells before walking totally naked to the gallows. | | | Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. | | | It is universally agreed that, with his death, the world lost a most insightful theological mind. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer
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| | Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Therefore, Bonhoeffer saw religion as a genuine hindrance to true faith in Jesus Christ. | | | Bonhoeffer affirmed that the human ‘Thou’ also has reality for the ‘I’, but this reality is solely derived from the ‘Thou’ of God. | | | Indeed, Bonhoeffer repeatedly affirms that God is revealed in Christ and only in Christ. |
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http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_780_bonhoeffer.htm
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Using Dietrich Bonhoeffer's, 'Letters and Papers From Prison', in which he spoke of the need for a radical revision of Christianity in a secular (Godless) age, the Death of God theologians sought to reconstruct Christian belief and present it re-packaged for the modern world. | | | Dietrich Bonhoffer is one of the Spiritual Stars of the Golden Age. | | | Bonhoeffer raised the question "What might Christianity without the trappings of religion look like?" The 'Death of God' became the catchphrase to describe a movement started in 1960's in England that saw a radical shift in the way some theologians perceived Christianity in the modern world. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ganesha_gate/dietr.html
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| | Online Exhibitions Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Like most Christians of his generation, Bonhoeffer believed that God's special destiny for the Jewish people included their eventual acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah. | | | Because of this, and because the Christian tradition was his central point of reference, much of Bonhoeffer's thought seems irrelevant, at best, to the Jewish community. | | | His experience under Nazism thrust him into profound conflict with much of his religious tradition, raising questions that he was unable to resolve before his life was ended. |
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http://www.ushmm.org/bonhoeffer/b1.htm
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Likewise, Bonhoeffer argues, the enthusiasm of the moral fanatic or dogmatist is also ineffective for a similar reason. | | | This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that "(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie" (Ethics, p.67). | | | The fanatic believes that he or she can oppose the power of evil by a purity of will and a devotion to principles that forbid certain actions. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/bonhoeff.htm
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer - General Teachings/Activities |
| | Moreover, Bonhoeffer believed that the true Christian was the confessing believer who totally immersed his life in the secular world, becoming a secular Christian. | | | Bonhoeffer readily acknowledged "the debt he owes to liberal theology." Declaring that it was impossible to know the objective truth about Christ's real nature and essence, Bonhoeffer proclaimed that God was dead. | | | Bonhoeffer's writings are credited with helping to father the "Death of God" theology which was popularized by the Anglican Bishop John A.T. Robinson in the decade of the1960s. |
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http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/bonhoeffer/general.htm
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| | Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer? International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society |
| | Bonhoeffer's theologically rooted opposition to National Socialism first made him a leader, along with Martin Niemueller and Karl Barth, in the Confessing Church (bekennende Kirche), and an advocate on behalf of the Jews. | | | Bonhoeffer's early travel to Rome, his curacy in Barcelona and his post-doctoral year in New York (including regular work at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, as well as travel to Cuba and Mexico), opened Bonhoeffer to the ecumenical church. | | | Following his ordination at St. Matthias Church, Berlin, in November 1931, he was to help organize the Pastors' Emergency League in September 1933, prior to asssuming the pastorate of the German Evangelical Church, Sydenham, and the Reformed Church of St. Paul in London. |
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http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/node/3
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| | Bonhoeffer and the Future of Faith |
| | Bonhoeffer with pastors of the Confessing Church in 1939. | | | Bonhoeffer is second from left, Eberhard Bethge, to whom many of the prison letters are written and who became the martyr's biographer, is fourth from the right. | | | Enigmatic though the letters are, the questions Bonhoeffer addresses are important: they concern the assumptions upon which Christian preaching and theology proceed. |
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http://www.etss.edu/hts/hts3/info19.htm
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| | Deitrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Bonhoeffer argued that the latter would render the church no church at all. | | | Since his family was religiously indifferent, family members were startled and amused – then incredulous – when Bonhoeffer announced at the age of fourteen that he was going to be a pastor and theologian. | | | Not one of the university faculties of theology had sided with the confessing church. |
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http://www.victorshepherd.on.ca/Heritage/deitrich.htm
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Noteworthy People, Theology, Christian, Religion, Sociology, Humanities, Perry Smith |
| | Bonhoeffer is important for his ecumenism, his efforts toward world peace, and his firm belief in the need for a reinterpretation of Christianity for the modern secular world. | | | Bonhoeffer joined the Confessing Church, which resisted the Nazi attempt to impose anti-Semitism on the church and society. | | | This page is the first in a section containing links and information about people that I feel are worthy of note and should not be forgotten for their contributions to the world. |
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http://www.perryland.com/Noteworthy1.shtml
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| | Stanley Hauerwas"Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Truth and Politics" |
| | Bonhoeffer believed that the church is the sign God has placed in the windows of the world to make possible a truthful politics. | | | Bonhoeffer suggests that “the claim of the congregation to build the world on Christian principles ends only with the total capitulation of the Church to the world, as can be seen clearly enough by a glance at the New York church registers. | | | One might think, Bonhoeffer reflects, that such a situation would be favorable for the possibility of the unity of the churches of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_6/hauerwas.htm
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| | Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - 20th Centry Martyrs - Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Bonhoeffer saw Nazism to be a counter- religion and a danger to Christianity. | | | It was nominally a Lutheran, though not a profoundly religious, environment and the young Bonhoeffer caused something of a stir when he announced, at thirteen, that he would go into the church. | | | He became an active participant in the dispute which broke out in the Protestant churches between those who sympathized with Nazism and those who sensed that the new politics threatened the integrity of the church. |
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http://www.westminster-abbey.org/tour/martyrs/7_db.htm
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| | Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | The time when people could be told everything by means of words, whether theological or pious, is over, and so is the time of inwardness and conscience — and that means the time of religion in general. | | | The "confessing church" movement, in which Bonhoeffer became a guiding figure, was founded in 1933 to oppose the Nazi-sponsored German Christian Church, or Reichskirche. | | | Three months later during his lecture "The Church and the Jewish Question," he declared the obligation of the church "to question the state repeatedly whether its actions could be justified, i.e. |
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http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2004/10/28_bonhoeffer
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) - By Miles Hodges |
| | But Bonhoeffer's Christian spirit was clearly heading him in the opposite direction, toward a position of Christian internationalism or "ecumenism." In 1931 he attended an ecumenical conference in Cambridge, England, and was appointed a European youth secretary of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches. | | | During Bonhoeffer's absence away in London, German theology students who took a position favorable to the Confessing Church and in opposition to the State Church had been finding themselves excluded from theology studies in the German universities. | | | In all, Bohnoeffer was haunted by a fear that he was witnessing in Germany a moral collapse within the church that would deservedly bring on the wrath of God. |
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http://www.newgenevacenter.org/biography/bonhoeffer2.htm
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | "Bonhoeffer believed that only those who were imprisoned because of their proclamation or actions in the service of the church belonged on the prayer list, but not those imprisoned as political conspirators," he said. | | | At a recent memorial service in Flossenbuerg, Klaus Engelhardt, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), described how Bonhoeffer refused to be placed on the prayer list of the Confessing Church after his imprisonment in 1943. | | | Engelhardt asserted that the church today should think again about how it supports those who exercise their resistance to injustice through political means. |
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http://www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org/yourti19116.html
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| | The Cost of Discipleship |
| | Thus all kinds of secular totalitarianism which force man to cast aside his religious and moral obligations to God and subordinate the laws of justice and morality to the State are incompatible with his conception of life. | | | God heard his prayer and granted him the "costly grace"—that is, the privilege of taking the cross for others and of affirming his faith by martyrdom. | | | Since everything that follows comes from Bonhoeffer's book (except for a few words in brackets), we have not used quotation marks. |
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http://www.crossroad.to/Persecution/Bonhoffer.html
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| | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prisoner for God: Letters and Papers from Prison |
| | When Bonhoeffer spoke of a godless world he meant something to the effect that God is not an immediate presence to be turned to when we have problems, as He had seemed in earlier times, but that instead we must learn to help ourselves. | | | In a letter of July 18, 1944, Bonhoeffer offered his own analysis of the ideas he was trying to develop in these verses. | | | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prisoner for God: Letters and Papers from Prison |
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http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1001
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| | Glimpses bulletin #63: Bonhoeffer on real christianity |
| | This morning as he was led out of his cell, he was observed by the prison doctor who said: "Through the half-open door I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer still in his prison clothes, kneeling in fervent prayer to the Lord his God. | | | He died at 39, but left a legacy in his writings that now, a half-century later, still provides valuable insight for Christians seeking to live faithfully to the Gospel in a culture dominated by hostile ideologies. | | | Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps063.shtml
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| | FT March 2000: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ethics (1949) |
| | Such a theology is conservative in the sense of claiming and clinging to what Bonhoeffer, in his prison letters, called the "full content" of the New Testament, for "the New Testament is not a mythological clothing of a universal truth; this mythology (resurrection, etc.) is the thing itself." | | | Unsurprising, then, that when the crunch came it was all too easy to capitulate and to see in Hitlerism an avatar of a specifically German brand of Christian particularism. | | | Because Bonhoeffer never penned a full—fledged justification of his refusal to obey the Nazi state and his determination to resist even unto death, he has been turned by too many into a kind of all—purpose resister or radical. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0003/articles/bonhoeffer.html
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| | Focus on the Family -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Increasingly, Bonhoeffer watched in disgust as a now lukewarm church — who felt it was their doctrinal duty to support the state — looked the other way while the Nazis persecuted the Jews and infiltrated the church. | | | Before long, he found himself part of the Confessing Church, a group of renegade Christians who openly opposed the "nazification" of the German church. | | | Years ago, one man raised questions about the role of faith and freedom in a godless society, and paid for the answers with his life. |
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http://www.radiotheatre.org/product/bonhoeffer
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| | Review: Bonhoeffer, Unplugged |
| | It's difficult not to lament what might have been for Dietrich and Maria Bonhoeffer, perhaps even for the course and contours of Christianity today, or merely for the friendship between Bonhoeffer and Bethge. | | | But these passages are worth navigating because, when Bethge opens the door to Bonhoeffer's personal life, and portrays a man for others, the biography soars and inspires. | | | From his prison cell in Tegel, Bonhoeffer wrote poignant sermons on the occasions of the wedding of Renate, his niece, and Bethge in May 1943 and the baptism of their son, his namesake, one year later. |
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http://www.marshillreview.com/reviews/bonhoeffer.shtm
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| | JamesBowman.net Bonhoeffer |
| | Like Bonhoeffer’s love of America and especially of black gospel music as he first experienced it at Adam Clayton Powell Senior’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, they may make him more appealing to today’s America, but they are much less important than his theology, on which the film spends surprisingly little time. | | | That is, he was both a pacifist who always intended to go to India to study non-violence with Gandhi and at the same time, if not an assassin himself, a sympathizer with assassins. | | | Bonhoeffer by contrast, believed in the literal meaning of the Sermon on the Mount as a guide to living — an idea as radical now as it was then and has always been. |
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http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1412
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer On New Monasticism (The Prayer Foundation) |
| | Extract of a letter written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his brother Karl-Friedrick on the 14th of January, 1935. | | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer On New Monasticism (The Prayer Foundation) | | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran Pastor in Germany who was first imprisoned and later executed (by hanging) by the Nazis during World War II...just a few weeks before the end of the war. |
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| | Christian History - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 131 Christians Everyone Should Know |
| | Together with other pastors and theologians, they organized the Confessing Church, which announced publicly in its Barmen Declaration (1934) its allegiance first to Jesus Christ: "We repudiate the false teaching that the church can and must recognize yet other happenings and powers, personalities and truths as divine revelation alongside this one Word of God. | | | Experience the issues that challenged the Church but could not defeat it: | | | I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/bonhoeffer.html
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Michael P. O'Connor |
| | What the heck does this have to do with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. | | | What does all this have to do with Dietrich Bonhoeffer? | | | So after exploring all these I have to say what Dietrich Bonhoeffer did was wrong, because the ends do not justify the means. |
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http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog?postid=511
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| | Online Exhibitions Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | What has become evident in this undertaking is the depth of the chasm between the ideals the Church had always set for itself and the way it responded to the brutalization of the German government under Adolf Hitler. | | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few church leaders who stood in courageous opposition to the Fuehrer and his policies. | | | The following story will give the reader some sense of the conflict within the Protestant church, as well as the remarkable response of one pastor/theologian to that conflict and to the turmoil within the nation itself. |
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http://www.ushmm.org/bonhoeffer
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| | Bonhoeffer (2003) |
| | User Comments: The rewriting of history to suit religion. | | | It's best viewed with in the context of a course on World War 2 history, so that it can be fully understood that while Bonhoeffer was a part of a group in the Protestant church that fought against Nazi Germany, most of that same church, including its leaders, supported the Nazis. | | | Maybe a more accurate comparison would be the Bush administration excusing itself for lieing about Iraq and the war by claiming it wasn't intentional and taking credit for the newspapers and organizations that disagreed with it from the beginning. |
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http://imdb.com/title/tt0371583
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| | MSN Encarta - Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| | Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945), German Lutheran theologian, whose life and thought have had increasing influence on the church since his execution... |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577416/Bonhoeffer_Dietrich.html
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| | Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | From 1940 to 1943 Bonhoeffer worked intermittently on a volume on Christian ethics but completed only fragments, which were published posthumously (Ethik, 1949; Ethics). | | | Bonhoeffer grew up amid the academic circles of the University of Berlin, where his father, Karl Bonhoeffer, was a professor of psychiatry and neurology. | | | His Letters and Papers from Prison, published posthumously in 1951, is perhaps the most profound document of his convictions. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080601
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| | PBS About This Site . Retired Site |
| | To find related content, try a keyword search, visit a related topic area using the pulldown menu at the top of this page, or browse our Programs A-Z menu. | | | The "Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace" site has been retired from pbs.org. |
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