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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Log in / create account article discussion edit this page history Dietrich Bonhoeffer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk navigation page. (February 2008) Main page Dietrich Bonhoeffer IPA: [ di tr ç bo nhøf ] Dietrich Bonhoeffer Contents (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Featured content Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Current events Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding Random article member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in search plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his execution. Bonhoeffer was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually executed by hanging shortly interaction before the war's end.[1] About Wikipedia Community portal Contents [hide] Recent changes 1 Family and youth Contact Wikipedia 2 Confessing Church Donate to Wikipedia 3 War years v. Holder, Help 4 Imprisonment and execution 3, 2009 April Born February 4, 1906 toolbox 5 Legacy on Breslau 6 Works about Bonhoeffer What links here Lopez-Rodriguez Died April 9, 1945 (age 39) 6.1 Books in archived Related changes Cited Flossenbürg concentration 6.1.1 Non-fiction camp Upload file 06-70868 6.1.2 Fiction Special pages No. Nationality German 6.2 Films Printable version Education Doctorate in theology Permanent link 6.3 Plays Occupation Pastor, professor, theologian Cite this page 6.4 Audio Drama 6.5 Verse about Bonhoeffer Religious Lutheran (Confessing languages beliefs Church) 6.6 Opera Alemannisch 6.7 Art (Iconography) Children (none) Català 7 References Parents Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer Česky 8 External links Dansk Deutsch Español Family and youth [edit] Esperanto Français Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau (Wrocław). He and his sister Sabine were twins. His brother Walter Gaeilge was killed during World War I, while his other brother, Klaus Bonhoeffer, was killed during World War II. Galego His sister married Hans von Dohnanyi and was the mother of the conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi and the later mayor of Hamburg, Klaus von Dohnanyi. His father, Karl Bonhoeffer, was a prominent Hrvatski German psychiatrist in Berlin. His mother, Paula, home-schooled the children. Though he was Bahasa Indonesia expected to follow his father into psychiatry, Bonhoeffer decided to become a theologian and later a Italiano pastor. He attended college in Tübingen and later at the University of Berlin, where he received his עברית doctorate in theology at the age of 21. As he was under 25, church regulations kept him from being Latina ordained. This gave him an opportunity to go abroad. Bonhoeffer spent a post-graduate year abroad Magyar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer[04/03/2009 2:44:41 PM] Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He would often visit the Abyssinian Baptist Nederlands Church in Harlem, where he became acquainted with the African-American spiritual. He acquired a 日本語 collection of spirituals, which he took back to Germany. Norsk (bokmål) Occitan Polski Confessing Church [edit] Português Română After his return from America, Bonhoeffer would play a large role in Русский the Confessing Church. Although Bonhoeffer was originally a Suomi Lutheran, he became frustrated with its "liberal theology" after Svenska discussions with Karl Barth, an eminent theologian. Barth believed Tagalog that "liberal theology" (understood as emphasizing personal Türkçe experience and societal development) minimized Scripture, reducing 中 it to a mere textbook of metaphysics while sanctioning the deification of human culture. Barth and Bonhoeffer often debated Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1932) rationalist and Hegelian-derived theology against Reformation doctrine, and Barth won over Bonhoeffer. Although Bonhoeffer would never totally abandon liberal theology, he did feel it was too constraining and responsible for the lack of relevance in the church. Bonhoeffer and Barth became main figures of the "neo-orthodox" movement mid-20th century in German- and English-speaking Protestantism. Bonhoeffer lectured on theology in Berlin and wrote several books. Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemöller, Karl Barth and others established the Confessing Church. In August 1933, he co-authored the Bethel Confession with Hermann Sasse and others. Between 1933 and 1935, he served as pastor of two German-speaking Protestant churches in London: St. Paul's and Sydenham. He traveled to India to study non-violent resistance with Gandhi, and returned to Germany to head a seminary for Confessing Church pastors, first in Finkenwalde and then at the vonHolder, Blumenthal estate of Gross Schlönwitz, which v. 3, 2009 was closed at the outbreak of World War II. The GestapoApril first banned him from preaching, then teaching, and finally any kind of public speaking.on During this time, Bonhoeffer worked closely with numerous opponentsin Lopez-Rodriguez of Adolf Hitler.archived Cited 06-70868 [edit] War No.years Bonhoeffer played a key leadership role in the Confessing Church, which openly opposed Adolf Hitler's Antisemitism. He called for church resistance to Hitler's policies towards the Jews. The Confessing Church was not large, but it represented a major source of Christian opposition to the Nazi government. In 1939, Bonhoeffer joined a secret group of high-ranking military officers in the Abwehr (Military intelligence Office), who planned to end the National Socialist regime by killing Hitler. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 after money used to help Jews escape to Switzerland was traced to him. He was charged with conspiracy and imprisoned in Berlin for a year and a half. Imprisonment and execution [edit] After the failure of the July 20 Plot on Hitler's life in 1944 and the discovery of secret documents relating to the conspiracy by the Gestapo in September 1944, Bonhoeffer's connections with the conspirators were discovered. He was transferred from the military prison in Berlin Tegel, where he had been held for 18 months, to the detention cellar of the house prison of the Reich Security Head Office, the Gestapo’s high security prison. In February 1945 he was secetly moved to Buchenwald concentration camp, and finally to Flossenbürg.[2] On April 4, 1945, the diaries of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris were discovered and in a rage upon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer[04/03/2009 2:44:41 PM] Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia reading them Hitler ordered that the conspirators be destroyed.[3] Bonhoeffer was condemned to death on April 8, 1945, by SS judge Otto Thorbeck at a drumhead court-martial without witnesses, records of Flossenbürg [4] proceedings or a defence in Flossenbürg concentration camp. He was concentration camp, executed there by hanging at dawn on April 9, 1945, just three weeks Arrestblock-Hof: Memorial to members of German before the Soviet capture of Berlin and a month before the capitulation of resistance executed on Nazi Germany. Like other executions associated with the July 20 Plot, the April 9, 1945 execution was brutal. Bonhoeffer was stripped of his clothing, ridiculed by the guards, and led naked into the execution yard. A lack of sufficient gallows to hang the plotters caused Hitler and Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels to use meathooks from slaughterhouses to slowly hoist the victim by a noose formed of piano wire.[5] Asphyxiation is thought to have taken half an hour.[6] Hanged with Bonhoeffer were fellow conspirators Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Canaris' deputy General Hans Oster, military jurist General Karl Sack, General Friedrich von Rabenau [7], businessman Theodor Strünck, and German resistance (anti-Nazi) fighterv. Ludwig Holder, Gehre. Bonhoeffer's brother, Klaus Bonhoeffer, and his brothers-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi and 3,Rüdiger 2009 Schleicher were executed elsewhere later in the month. on April in Lopez-Rodriguezarchived LegacyCited [edit] 06-70868 BonhoefferNo. is commemorated as a theologian and martyr by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of England and the Church in Wales. English translations of Bonhoeffer's works, most of which were originally written in German, are available: The Young Bonhoeffer 1918–1927. Fortress Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8006-8309-9. This first volume in the Fortress Press critical edition of Bonhoeffer's work gathers his earliest letters and journals Gallery of 20th Century Martyrs at through his graduation from Berlin University. It also Westminster Abbey. From left, Mother Elizabeth of Russia, Martin Luther contains his early theological writings up to his dissertation. King, Oscar Romero and Dietrich The seventeen essays include works on the patristic period Bonhoeffer for Adolf von Harnack, on Luther's moods for Karl Holl, on biblical interpretation for Professor Reinhold Seeberg, as well as essays on the church and eschatology, reason and revelation, Job, John, and even joy. Rounding out this picture of Bonhoeffer's nascent theology are his sermons from the period, along with his lectures on homiletics, catechesis, and practical theology. Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928–1931, a translation of Barcelona, Berlin, Amerika: 1928–1931. Fortress Press: not yet released. Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church. Clifford Green (editor); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer[04/03/2009 2:44:41 PM] Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reinhard Krauss (translator); Nancy Lukens (translator). Fortress Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8006-8301-3. Bonhoeffer's dissertation, completed in 1927 and first published in 1930 as Sanctorum Communio: eine Dogmatische Untersuchung zur Soziologie der Kirche. In it he attempts to work out a theology of the person in society, and particularly in the church. Along with explaining his early positions on sin, evil, solidarity, collective spirit, and collective guilt, it unfolds a systematic theology of the Spirit at work in the church and what it implies for questions on authority, freedom, ritual, and eschatology. Act and Being .
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