The runaway New York Times bestseller, revised and with a new introduction from the author.
Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th-century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. --Kirkus Reviews2011 ECPA Book of the Year2011 Canterbury Medal by the Becket Fund recognizing courage in the defense of religious liberty2011 Christopher Award winner highlighting the power of faith, courage, and action Who better to fa. --Archbishop Charles Chaput, First ThingsA definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century.
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Or to put it another way: Buy this book. --Thomas Fleming, author, The New Dealers\' WarMetaxas has created a biography of uncommon power--intelligent, moving, well researched, vividly written, and rich in implication for our own lives. --Christianity TodayMetaxas has written a book that adds a new dimension to World War II, a new understanding of how evil can seize the soul of a nation and a man of faith can confront it. --Publishers WeeklyMetaxas presents Bonhoeffer as a clear-headed, deeply convicted Christian who submitted to no one and nothing except God and his Word. --Wall Street Journal[A] weighty, riveting analysis of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. --Alan Wolfe, The New Republic Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer\'s story with passion and theological sophistication.
In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents?including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts?to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer\'s life and theology never before seen.
Includes Readers\' Guide [A] beautifully constructed biography.
Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer\'s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler\'s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer\'s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in Operation 7, the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.
In his blockbuster New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer\'s life--the theologian and the spy--and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.
One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Pastor and author.
The runaway New York Times bestseller, revised and with a new introduction from the author.
Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th-century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside
