Bonhoeffer the Assassin? Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call the Peacemaking, by Mark Thiessen Nation, Anthony G. Siegrist, and Daniel P. Umbel. Foreword By Stanley Hauerwas. A Book Review By Steve Hickey, University of Aberdeen An intentionally controversial book, as the subtitle suggests, Bonhoeffer the Assassin? by Nation, Siegrist and Umbel is an attempt to challenge what the authors [...]
The Rest of the Story: Bonhoeffer and Women
The Rest of the Story: Bonhoeffer and Women Diane Reynolds discusses her new book,The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Eugene, OR.: Wipf and Stock, 2016). Q. What is this book about? It’s a biography that focuses on the women in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Q. Why did you write it? I went to find a [...]
Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity
Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldiness of Christianity By Diane Reynolds At the end of Barry Harvey’s Taking Hold of the Real, Harvey contrasts the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany to Andre Trocme’s church at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which offered shelter to thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. In doing so, [...]
Ferdinand Schlingensiepen and the Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer
In recent years, the field of Bonhoeffer studies has been dominated by debates about two biographies: Eric Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Charles Marsh’s Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.[2] While members of the popular media and Christian commentators have generally lauded these stylish works, historians of the period as well as many Bonhoeffer scholars [...]
A Review of Mary Solberg’s “A Church Undone”
A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement 1932-1940. Selected, Translated and Introduced by Mary M. Solberg. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. 486 pp. Reviewed by Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College Mary Solberg’s A Church Undone is a welcome addition to the literature on support for Hitler within the German Evangelical Church during the 1930s [...]