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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Limits of Responsibility in a Globalizing Era

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    Season 12 Episode 9: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a remarkable young theologian and pastor in World War II Germany who joined the Resistance in several plots to assassinate Hitler. His devotional books are still best sellers today. That’s because, according to Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer was also a prophet. Metaxas, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, explains that term and what it means for all of us. Shirley Hoogstra hosts. Episode #1209

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Evangelical Moment in American Public Life

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    This essay was delivered during a panel discussion entitled "'Costly Discipleship and Contemporary Culture: Bonhoeffer as a Model for Religious Activism" during the conference Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, cosponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hebrew College, and Andover-Newton Theological School, September 18, 2006. The author argues that conservative American evangelicals "often conflate loyalty to Jesus Christ with loyalty to the United States of America. They weave together loyalty to Jesus Christ with loyalty to the president, the party, the troops, the flag, or the nation." For the author, the witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer encourages a strong resistance to such a confusion of loyalties

    Moral Formation as Transformation: The Contribution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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    This essay was delivered during a panel discussion entitled "The Formation of the Religious Conscience after the Shoah: Bonhoeffer’s Spirituality for Today " during the conference Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, cosponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hebrew College, and Andover-Newton Theological School, September 17, 2006. The author argues that Bonhoeffer can help us understand moral formation as personal and social transformation

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer : theoloog, christen, tijdgenoot /

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    Diepgaande biografie van de Duitse protestantse theoloog (1906-'45), geschreven door een van zijn beste vrienden.Met bibliografie van Bonhoeffer (p. 985-987) en index.Diepgaande biografie van de Duitse protestantse theoloog (1906-'45), geschreven door een van zijn beste vrienden

    Bonhoeffer. Trúartúlkun í myndugum heimi

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    Ritgerðin er skrifuð í tilefni af því að sjötíu ár eru liðin frá píslarvættisdauða Dietrichs Bonhoeffers. Í inngangi rekur höfundur eigin kynni við sögu og guðfræði Bonhoeffers en segir jafnframt frá helstu æviatriðum hans, afstöðu hans til nasistaflokksins, menntun hans og kennslu en einnig kynnir hann fjölskyldu hans og fjölskyldutengsl. Í fyrri meginhluta ritgerðarinnar er fjallað um andófsmanninn Bonhoeffer. Þar er þróun hans rakin frá því að vera afskiptalítill um málefni samfélagins í átt til sívaxandi þátttöku á því sviði. Þar kemur til reynsla hans af guðfræðingum og kirkjulífi vestanhafs og í Englandi en einnig virkri þátttöku í samkirkjulegu starfi. Í síðari meginhluta er fjallað um guðfræði Bonhoeffers samkvæmt Fangelsisbréfunum en þar er að finna afar sérstaka þróun þau tvö ár sem hann sat í fangelsum nasista í Þýskalandi. Megináherslan er þar lögð á skilning Bonhoeffers á myndugleika trúarinnar, á guðshugtakinu, á pólitískri ábyrgð kristins manns og ekki hvað síst guðfræðingsins og loks áhersla hans á reynsluna sem eina meginforsendu guðfræðinnar.AbstractSeventy years ago the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer suffered a martyr´s death in Germany. In the short introduction the author introduces some facts of Bonhoeffer´s life, his attitude to the nazi party, his education and lecturing but also his family and family connections. The first main section of the article explains Bonhoeffer´s path towards the political resistance, away from his rather passive attitude on the political scene towards a growing political consciousness based on his experience, faith and theology. In that development his acquaintance with church people and theologians in America, England and his participation in the ecumenical movement, plays a definite role. In the second main section the author deals with some key theological issues in his letters the two years of his imprisonment. Among the main issues dealt with are theology and faith in a culture “come of age”, the concept of God, the political responsibility of the Christian individual and the Christian community and Bonhoeffer´s view of a theology based on experience according to Luther´s view: sola autem experientia facit theologum (only experience makes the theologian.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 80 Years Since His Passing

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    On 9 April 2025, Christian academia commemorated the 80th year since the death of the prominent German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the Nazis a month before the end of World War II. Bonhoeffer left behind a great legacy as a minister of the church, as a patriot of his people, and as an author of theological works. Today, his theological contribution includes sixteen volumes of texts plus one volume of registers and appendices in German. Only the eighth volume of Widerstand und Ergebung, which contains letters and notes written by Bonhoeffer when he was already behind bars since April 1943, has been translated into Ukrainian. It was published under the title Sprotyv i pokora (eng. Resistance and Obedience). Any serious study of Bonhoeffer’s work that is being conducted in Ukraine today should be based on these primary sources. One of the main questions that Bonhoeffer raises in his work is: “Who can stand?” His answer is: not the one for whom reason, principles, conscience, personal freedom, and virtue are the highest authority, but the one who is ready to sacrifice all of this if he is convinced that by faith and through an exceptional connection with God he is “called to obedient and responsible action.” The life of such a responsible person is a response to the request and call of God. The only question is “where are these responsible people?” (wo sind die Verantwortlichen?)

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer – wyzwolony teolog wyzwolenia

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    The case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is particular for the reason that there’s no way to omit or at least not to remember his life for this simple cause that it constitutes an important commentary to his views, that’s why the first chapter of the article has been devoted in its wholeness to his biography. Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to the world in an old, bourgeois-aristocratic family on the day of 4th February 1906 in Breslau (Wroclaw). He was executed in the concentration camp in Bavarian Flossenburg on the 9th of April in 1945. He has written himself into history as a Lutheran pastor, theologian, ecumenical and anti-Hitlerite activist. He was the creator of the concept of ’secular Christianity‘, which would have been supposed to have guested in the religionless world, that is, such that God had left it out of His own will and, while abandoning it, He didn’t desire for man anything so much as his maturity and growing-up to the self-directed and responsible living in the here and now. People must learn to live in the world etsi Deus non daretur (as if there weren’t any God), although still under His sight.Przypadek Dietricha Bonhoeffera jest szczególny z tego powodu, że nie sposób pominąć lub przynajmniej nie wspomnieć o jego życiu, z tej prostej przyczyny, że stanowi ono ważny komentarz do jego poglądów, dlatego pierwszy rozdział artykułu został poświęcony w całości jego biografii. Dietrich Bonhoeffer przyszedł na świat w starej mieszczańsko-arystokratycznej rodzinie dnia 4 lutego 1906 r. w Breslau (Wrocławiu). Został stracony w obozie koncentracyjnym w bawarskim Flossenburgu 9 kwietnia 1945 r. W historii zapisał się jako luterański pastor, teolog, działacz ekumeniczny i antyhitlerowski. Był on twórcą koncepcji „świeckiego chrześcijaństwa”, które miałoby zagościć w bez-religijnym świecie, czyli takim, z którego Bóg z własnej woli odszedł, a opuszczając go niczego tak nie pragnął dla człowieka jak jego dojrzałości, dorośnięcia do samodzielnego i w pełni odpowiedzialnego życia tu i teraz. Ludzie muszą nauczyć się żyć w świecie etsi Deus non daretur (jak gdyby Boga nie było), choć nadal pod Jego wzrokiem
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