Agree. My favorite book in the last decade.

Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison was required in the honors section of some course I had at Baylor in the late 70's. Still have my copy. Have read through several times. I'll need to read this biography.

I think what has fascinated me about him is his conversion from Lutheran, academic Christian theologian from a patrician family (pre-Nazi Germany) to an evangelical Christian (still Lutheran) based on his time in the US in the late 1920s attending a Baptist Church in Harlem where he saw Christianity in action. That time in the US during segregation in which his black friends were segregated informed his actions later when the Nazis started segregating the Jews and infiltrated the church with crazy loyalty oaths to Hitler.

interesting..danke!

The pastor of that Harlem church was Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. I believe. Dietrich thought the black Christians had worship down correctly.

Great book. Read it last year. A lot of people could see what was happening and what was going to happen. He could have stayed in America or England but chose to go back to Germany. Pretty powerful stuff.

As a young child, my grandfather (who was a pastor) would give me Literature about Boenhoeffer because of my grandfathers high admiration for him. As a child it was all a bit too much...but later in life I travelled to Germany often for work. I often thought and wondered about the Church's stance during WWII in Germany. This biography on Boenhoeffer was so well written and not only provided great insight into how the church dealt with the Nazis, but Boenhoeffer provides a great example how we as Christians should deal with our political leaders in current times.

Thanks for calling my attention to this writer. /Always wanted to learn more about Bonhoeffer, one of my dad's heroes. Wish he had provided an epilogue, so we could find out what happened to his fiance, parents, close friends following the war. I will probably try Metaxas' work on Martin Luther.

My parents read the book and then gave it to me to read, but I never did. I do know about the man and think he is one of the greatest men of the 20th century