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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau in 1906.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi (1906–1945)

"Bonhoeffer" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Bonhoeffer (surname). For the film, see Bonhoeffer (film).

The Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer in his garden in Berlin
Born	(1906-02-04)4 February 1906 Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany
Died	9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 39) Flossenbürg, Bavaria, Germany
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Education	Staatsexamen (Tübingen), Doctor of Theology (Berlin), Privatdozent (Berlin)
Alma mater	University of Tübingen University of Berlin
Parents
Relatives	Klaus Bonhoeffer (brother) Hans von Dohnanyi (brother-in-law)
Religion	Lutheranism
Church	Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (1906–1933) Confessing Church (1933–1945)
Congregations served	Zion's Church congregation, Berlin German-speaking congregations of St. Paul's and Sydenham, London
Offices held	Associate lecturer at Frederick William University of Berlin (1931–1936) Student pastor at the T • The Cost of Discipleship: Nachfolge, The Book It was circa May 1971 and I was flying across the Andes looking out of the airplane window contemplating what I had just been reading. As beautiful as the snow-capped Andes were, it was the majesty of the words I had just read that caused my soul to rise in admiration. “Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace… The church that teaches this doctrine of grace thereby confers such grace upon itself. The world finds in this church a cheap cover-up for its sins, for which it shows no remorse and from which it has even less desire to be set free. Cheap grace is, thus, denial of God’s living word, denial of the incarnation[1] of the word of God.”*[2]* These words reset the course of my life, they opened my theological eyes, and helped me see clearly that grace was an active force that created action, or it wasn’t grace at all. I wanted to explode out of my seat and run up and down the skinny airplane aisle to burn off the excitement I was feeling. These were the words • Bonhoeffer movie is dividing his admirers – unnecessarily In November 2024, a new movie about the life of the famous German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was released in the United States. This spring, it will be shown at European cinemas. The movie roused fierce discussions in the United States, mainly because the film was supposed to have been primarily inspired by Bonhoeffer-biographer and Trump supporter Eric Metaxas. But feel free to watch the movie, even if you are not a fan of Christian Nationalism. The movie offers a pretty accurate view of Bonhoeffer, who is rightfully remembered as a convincing disciple of Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian and pastor and is still well-known in the Christian world. He was born into a well-to-do Berlin family that belonged to the Bildungsbürgertum: well-educated, civilised citizens. His father was a professor of psychiatry. Dietrich studied theology and soon turned out to be a highly gifted student (his promotion took place when he was 21 years old), and he developed into one of the most influential theologian Tomoe gozen biography Hayley atwell biography Billy davis eagles biography Joseph martin biography Pizzeria oggiono stendhal biography Copyright ©cowroof.pages.dev 2025