As convicções de Dietrich Bonhoeffer eram de uma limpidez cristalina; jovem como era, e de espírito humilde, via a verdade e proclamava-a com completo destemor. Por onde quer que andasse, e estivesse com quem estivesse - estudantes, pessoas da sua idade ou mais velhas - era indômito, alheando-se de si próprio, dedicado aos seus amigos, ao seu lar, ao seu país (como Deus desejaria que este fosse), à sua igreja e ao seu mestre. As poucas páginas que se seguem foram extraídas do seu trabalho que trata do tema da vida em comum da igreja.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war's end.
Overshadowed by his life and death, his theology and his view of Christianity's role in the secular world has nevertheless remained very influential.
He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the Gospels.
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