Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tried to Prepare the Church for the Persecution Against...
In March of 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave his address, “The Church and the Jewish Question” to a group of pastors.Bonhoeffer made it clear that the church has an obligation to help and protect the...
View ArticleThe Infamous Aryan Paragraph
On April 1, 1933, the Law on the Reconstruction of the Professional Civil Service was passed by Adolf Hitler’s complaint parliament. The third clause was the Aryan paragraph. This… …provided for all...
View ArticleThe Compromise of the German “Christians” in Nazi Germany
…the German Christians, unlike Hitler and his propagandist Goebbels, were not very clever at public relations. They organized a ‘Reich Conference’ on 3-4 April (1933) in Berlin, at which they shouted...
View ArticleDietrich Bonhoeffer Saw Early On that Hitler’s View of the Jews Would Be an...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the first theologians, after 30 January 1933, to recognize Hitler‘s policy against the Jews as a problem for the Church. There were never to be many who agreed with him....
View ArticleDietrich Bonhoeffer Could Understand the Crucial Issues Before Most Others Could
Ferdinand Schlingensiepen in his biography, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance writes that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had already began working on his essay, “The Church and the...
View ArticleAll the Bonhoeffers Rejected Hitler!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, along with the rest of his family, rejected the Nazi philosophy early on… …this was not an isolated decision, but rather, like so much else in life, one that was influenced by...
View ArticleAs Early as 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Could See the Church Struggle...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw the writing on the wall about the Jews early on… In the spring of 1933, Bonhoeffer understood right away that the persecution of the Jews, then just getting underway, was the...
View ArticleThe Bad Theology of the German Nazi “Christians”!
Lutheran dogmatists Paul Althaus and Werner Elert from Erlangen…declared that the volkisch diversity of external church organization’ expressed ‘a necessary consequence of the the divisions of the...
View ArticleJohn Piper on the Biblical Stand Taken by Wolfhart Pannenberg and Dietrich...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Wolfhart Pannenberg on Schism by John Piper | February 23, 2012 Of course, the courage of Bonhoeffer to defy the compromising state church of Germany in the early days of...
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