num_pages: 608
description: 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. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author known as much for such spiritual classics as The Cost of Discipleship and Life Together as for his 1945 execution in a concentration camp for his part in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in forty years New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's lifethe theologian and the spyto tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. In a deeply moving narrative Metaxas uses previously unavailable documentsincluding personal letters detailed journal entries and firsthand personal accountsto reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.In Bonhoeffer: Pastor Martyr Prophet SpyA Righteous Gentile vs the Third Reich Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany and using extended excerpts from love letters and coded messages written to and from Bonhoeffer's Cell 92 Metaxas tells for the first time the full story of Bonhoeffer's passionate and tragic romance.Readers will discover fresh insights and revelations about his life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and about his radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in Operation 7 the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.Bonhoeffer gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically courageously and joyfullyeven to the point of death. Bonhoeffer is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil.
language: English
title: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
publisher: Thomas Nelson