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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s insightful writings and staunch resistance to the Nazi party have ensured that he remains one of the twentieth century’s most influential theologians. This accessible and engaging introduction, written by an internationally acclaimed Bonhoeffer scholar, considers the role Bonhoeffer played in resisting the Nazis and explains his attitude toward the Holocaust.

the forgiveness of sins. This leaves us itching to ask Bonhoeffer: ‘But isn’t that making Christ a bit too human? How can he be met in the form of a human community and yet worshipped as God?’ Bonhoeffer’s reply would be, ‘That’s exactly what we have to look at again in the understanding of the person of Christ (Christology). Come to my lectures in Berlin 1933!’ These Christology lectures are in fact only available to us as reconstructed from students’ notes—and incomplete at that. Nor can it be
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