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Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and...

In spring 1923 Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his studies in Protestant theology in Tübingen, attending the university where his father had studied. He joined his father’s student fraternity, “the Hedgehogs,” attracted primarily by the conversations and excursions, and didn’t ask about its political orientation. He left the Hedgehogs in 1933, however, when the fraternity incorporated the Aryan paragraph, a state law excluding
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