Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich /

Metaxas, Eric,

Bonhoeffer : pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich / [print] Eric Metaxas. - Nashville : Thomas Nelson, (c)2010. - xvi, 591 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.



Family and childhood -- Tubingen, 1923 -- Roman holiday, 1924 -- Student in Berlin, 1924-27 -- Barcelona, 1928 -- Berlin, 1929 -- Bonhoeffer in America, 1930-31 -- Berlin, 1931-32 -- The Fuhrer principle, 1933 -- The church and the Jewish question -- Nazi theology -- The church struggle begins -- The Bethel confession -- Bonhoeffer in London, 1934-35 -- The church battle heats up -- The conference at Fan -- The road to Zingst and Finkenwalde -- Zingst and Finkenwalde -- Scylla and Charybdis, 1935-36 -- Mars ascending, 1938 -- The great decision, 1939 -- The end of Germany -- From confession to conspiracy -- Plotting against Hitler -- Bonhoeffer scores a victory -- Bonhoeffer in love -- Killing Adolf Hitler -- Cell 92 at Tegel Prison -- Valkyrie and the Stauffenberg plot -- Buchenwald -- On the road to freedom.

"Bonhoeffer" presents a profoundly orthodox Christian theologian whose faith led him to boldly confront the greatest evil of the 20th century, and uncovers never-before-revealed facts, including the story of his passionate romance.



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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 --Political and social views.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 --Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)


Clergy--Germany--Biography.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Germany--Biography.
Spies--Germany--Biography.
Christian martyrs--Germany--Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.

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