Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Revised and Updated
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Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th-century than a humble man of faith?
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author. In his blockbuster New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents?including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts?to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.
640 pages
Ratings & Reviews
3 Reviews
Worth it's weight in gold!
Carla| 2020-12-16 17:33
This book is huge! lol Packed with an amazing biography, with pictures and extra stuff that will not disappoint.
Belongs in "Best Books I've Ever Read" category.
Jan| 2021-01-31 19:44
The book takes a bit of reading to get into it but if you have any hunger to understand history in order to understand what is happening today, oh, my, this book gives incredible insight. Up there with a small handful of best books I've ever read in my 50+ years of life. Don't miss it. It is changing my life.
Exceptional, well written & thought provoking
Jan| 2021-03-03 20:54
An excellent, thought provoking and engaging book. I found the sheer size of the volume daunting but was quickly drawn in to the story and haven’t looked back. I wish everyone would read it.