Marlene Oaks:
As much as I have admired him, I now feel deep admiration and inspiration for Bonhoeffer. His courage, clarity and profound spiritually are a full fledged example for us all. I urge you to read this masterful biography.
United States on Feb 08, 2024
Carlos:
Este es un gran libro, te enseña. En un momento en el que era fácil dejarse llevar por la corriente Nazi, como hizo la inmensa mayoría de la población alemana desde principios de los años treinta, Bonhoeffer se opone.¿por qué? ¿De que madera estaba hecho este hombre? ¿Que principios animaban sus actos? Aquí están las respuestas. Un gran libro de fácil lectura
Spain on Feb 01, 2022
Amazon Customer:
Incredible, inspirational, captivating...
Extensively researched and beautifully crafted
I bought the Kindle version long ago and never got around to reading it until the last few days
Thank you Eric Metaxas
Australia on Aug 02, 2020
M:
This is my first exposure to Bonhoeffer and I was not disappointed. This book has peaked my interests about him even more. I would very much like to read his written works too. And I wouldn't mind reading other biographical accounts written about him too.
India on Jun 28, 2019
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Japan on Oct 20, 2018
ypastorbrad:
When Eric Metaxas published Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, his lengthy biography of Bonhoeffer in 2010, I knew it was something I had to read. However, it fell to the bottom of the list of a bunch of other books I genuinely wanted to read, but never got around to. That is, until this year and my push to read a book each week.
I wish that I had not waited so long.
Bonhoeffer is a masterful work of both detailed non-fiction and artful storytelling. This is no mere collection of witty sayings by an obviously brilliant man. This is the epic of a man caught in a war with his own soul and the Third Reich.
What strikes me most about this book is that is so clear how taken with Bonhoeffer Metaxas has become, and yet it is not an attachment that is bothersome in the sense that he is some wide-eyed groupie. There is genuine respect, admiration, and an attempt to come to grips with life of man unlike we have seen in centuries. Metaxas doesn't oversell the point though. Bonhoeffer wasn't perfect and the attempt here is not to make him out to be a bastion of righteousness without fault or blemish. But he helps us to see Dietrich...
United States on Feb 24, 2014
Snow Pharoah:
This is a wonderfully well written biography of a key figure in 20th century Christianity. Eric Metaxas has done a masterful job of communicating the zeitgeist of early and mid-20th century Germany, the inter-relationships between church and state amidst the growing popularity of the National Socialist Party and the incongruity of being a Christian, and adhering to official NAZI party lines. Four points are particularly well made:
First, there can be no doubt that one of the key issues that Bonhoeffer must respond to throughout his early life is the way the German Church - the church of the reformation that has so highlighted the importance of scripture, salvation and reconciliation with God by grace through the redeeming work of Christ on the cross - the German Church had adopted habits, that made it vulnerable to collaborating with government abuse of different populations. The German church is portrayed as simply offering up all kinds of deep compromise to the NAZIs. This biography begs the question: how do you interpret scripture in a way that will make you stand in the face of evil, cover your neighbor's back, look after the poor and the rejected,...
Canada on Jul 04, 2012
Dr. David Steele:
Eric Metaxas has outdone himself with his latest work, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. The author sets the stage for Bonhoeffer's life and ministry by detailing his life as a child and the events that led to full-time Christian ministry.
Metaxas provides rich detail that helps deconstruct this enigmatic character we know as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The formative years in Rome are explored, student life in Berlin, and his first pastorate in Barcelona. Bonhoeffer is painted as one who loved children and had a passion for equipping young men for the ministry.
His life as a university student in Berlin is a fascinating journey, especially the information that pertains to his friendship with the German theologian, Karl Barth. Also interesting is path chosen by Bonhoeffer as he studied with German liberals like Adolf von Harnack. These years taught Bonhoeffer to think for himself and carefully formulate his theological presuppositions and produce doctoral and post-doctoral dissertations (Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being respectively).
Shortly after Act and Being was published with little acclaim, Bonhoeffer make his way to America in...
United States on Jan 19, 2011
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