Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Standing “in the Tradition of Paul, Luther, Kierkegaard, in the Tradition of Genuine Christian Thinking”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Standing “in the Tradition of Paul, Luther, Kierkegaard, in the Tradition of Genuine Christian Thinking”

ABSTRACT

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) was one of the leading figures of the Confessing Church, the opposition movement in the Protestant church in the Third Reich. He also took part in the famous July 20 assassination attempt to kill Adolf Hitler and to end the Nazi regime.