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His Biography. "A spiritual writer, a musician, and an author of fiction and poetry. The integrity of his Christian faith and life, and the international appeal of his writings, have led to a broad consensus that he is the one theologian of his time to lead future generations of Christians into the new millenium." |
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The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Home Page. A collection of work and honour despite many dead links. |
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The story of his opposition to anti-semitism from the United States Holocaust Museum. Very well done - pictures and quotes. "He leaves a legacy unique among theologians and church activists. As hardly any other Christian thinker in history, Bonhoeffer articulated a theology that truly confronted his times and he did so not with the benefit of hindsight, but during the Third Reich itself. We are left with many questions about where this life would have led. But, in a very real sense, the questions Bonhoeffer left unresolved are the ones we face today." |
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3 Video clips available from play Bonhoeffer 1945. Especially look at Clip 3: Bonhoeffer speaking on the nature of truth and singing a psalm. |
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Link to the PBS movie Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace. |
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"The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he
is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming
generation shall continue to live."
... After Ten Years 1942
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"We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds: we have been drenched
by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience
has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open;
intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we
still of any use?" After Ten Years 1942
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"If we refuse to take up our cross and submit to suffering and rejection
at the hands of men, we forfeit our fellowship with Christ and have ceased
to follow him." The Cost of Discipleship
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| "Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected,
extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does
not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. ...
God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing
but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our
own inner poverty were quite beneath our dignity. With that attitude, we
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| "We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness
and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means
of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way
from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be,
however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot
penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships,
not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only
get into touch with our neighbors through Him." |
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