In the late 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then the most promising Protestant theologian in Germany, wrote a book entitled in English The Cost of Discipleship. Several years afterward he was arrested and ...

The Battle for Bonhoeffer Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump by Stephen R. Haynes Eerdmans, 208 pp., $19.99 You can tell a lot about people by their heroes. After all, people model themselves ...

How the German martyr’s example has been used—and abused—in American public discourse. Of course, with words like “battle” and “age of Trump” right there on the cover, this book crosses territory rich ...

Foremost among the theological influences on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s generation was the development of the Confessing Church. German Protestant Christianity was not a particularly likely place for ...

Eric Metaxas explains how the German theologian lived a life worth examining. What inspired you to begin studying Bonhoeffer? My mother grew up in Nazi Germany, losing her father during the war. He ...

In a 2002 speech in Berlin thanking Germany for its support of the war on terrorism, President George W. Bush invoked none other than the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He compared the fight ...

The November release of a major motion picture on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has reignited a long-simmering battle between those who seek to learn from Bonhoeffer's life and those who seek to use ...

You have to read Eric Metaxas with bifocals. With the upper lens you read the Metaxas of the book, an engaging narrative by an experienced writer who presents Bonhoeffer as a Christian hero led by God ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the world's great theologians, died at age 39 on a Nazi gallows, stripped of clothes and dignity, his death unknown to his family until three months later. They never found ...