It also has at the very back several pages of discussion points and questions for further study. The blockish paperback copy I purchased covers German and world history, religion, philosophy, culture, family dynamics, romance, politics, and more. That’s how much historical perspective and spiritual grit is offered in these 542 pages. At least, I’d very much like to see my daughters and nieces and nephews all read this.
This book produced so much sparkling thought and has generated so much worthwhile conversation here at the farm, that I actually believe it could be used as a solid textbook for either a history class or a theology class or both. Misti C., our famous little Oklahoma book club is on the verge of discussing this thick, hefty biography. This month, thanks to a bold reading assignment by the lovely Ms. Thus did the world again begin to reconcile itself to itself.” “As the couple took in the hard news that the good man who was their son was now dead, so too, many English took in the hard news that the dead man who was a German was good. But what do you know about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He was a contemporary of those men, too, and a peer in many ways, a German citizen whose contributions to history during these incredible decades have gone largely unnoticed.ĭietrich Bonhoeffer was everything the book title promises… a brilliant and devoted pastor and a cultural prophet, a spy against his own government, and ultimately a martyr for his cause. Each in his own way, these brilliant minds were busy nourishing and challenging the world during one of its darkest chapters. Lewis, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, and Pablo Picasso.
You are surely familiar with early twentieth century greats like Albert Einstein, C.S.
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