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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance…
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culture · German Lutheran pastor and theologian (1906–1945) · philosopher · resistance fighter · poet · pastor · Protestant theologian · also Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer
Born 4 February 1906 · Died 9 April 1945 · Q76326
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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Theological Education Underground: 1937–1940, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It was voted the most popular hymn in Germany
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2008· 1 entry
The General Conference of the United Methodist Church, which does not enumerate saints, officially recognized Bonhoeffer as a "modern-day martyr"
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2006· 1 entry
By Gerhard Kaufmann for orchestra, soloists, and choir and based on the writings of Bonhoeffer
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2004· 1 entry
At the Acacia Theatre Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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1958· 1 entry
And named Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche in his honor
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1945· 2 entries
Died 1945-04-09.
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“Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.”
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1941· 1 entry
Was forbidden to print or to publish anything
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1938· 2 entries
The Gestapo banned Bonhoeffer from Berlin
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Published in 1939 as Gemeinsames Leben, and first translated into English in 1954
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1937· 3 entries
This book (generally known in English by the title The Cost of Discipleship) soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government
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“Theological Education Underground: 1937–1940, Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
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As Nachfolge (Discipleship), it soon became a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government
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1935· 1 entry
Bonhoeffer was offered a coveted opportunity to study non-violent resistance under Mahatma Gandhi in his ashram
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1932· 2 entries
Bonhoeffer called on his students at the University of Berlin to focus their attention on the word of God, the word of truth, in a time of turmoil
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“The blood of martyrs might once again be demanded, but this blood, if we really have the courage and loyalty to shed it, will not be innocent, shining like that of the first witnesses for the faith. On our blood lies heavy with guilt, the guilt of the unprofitable servant who is cast into outer darkness.”
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1931· 2 entries
As Akt und Sein, deals with the consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation's insight into the origin sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revel
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Bonhoeffer became a lecturer in systematic theology at the University of Berlin
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1930· 1 entry
Bonhoeffer moved to America with the intent of attaining a Sloane Fellowship at New York City's Union Theological Seminary
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1927· 2 entries
And first published in 1930 as Sanctorum Communio: eine Dogmatische Untersuchung zur Soziologie der Kirche
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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, doctorate (1927).
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at University of Tübingen (1923).
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-02-04.
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