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The Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

The Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

Moses, John a.

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Biographies GeneralReligion General German History

ISBN10: 1845455312
ISBN13: 9781845455316
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant. Bonhoeffer gradually recognized the ways in which the intellectual and religious traditions of his own class - the Bildungsbürgertum - were enabling Nazi evil. In response, he offered a religiously inspired call to political opposition and Christian witness-which cost him his life. The author investigates Bonhoeffer's stance in terms of his confrontation with the legacy of Hegelianism and Neo-Rankeanism, and by highlighting Bonhoeffer's intellectual and spiritual journey, shows how his endeavor to politicially reeducate the German people must be examined in theological terms.

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