Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: livius

According to Bonhoeffer the pastor who took part in an assassination plot against Hitler, Riverside was far gone as a church in the 30s preaching politics rather than the Gospel of Christ. The Union Seminary in town was as well.


54 posted on 07/12/2019 1:48:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]


To: piasa

It is not certain Dietrich Bonhoeffer did that. If he did, then he conspired to commit murder - not the best way to emulate Christ, but a way to impress leftist pseudo-theologians.

Marc Thiessen wrote a book purporting to disprove that theory about Bonhoeffer.


78 posted on 07/13/2019 12:06:51 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson