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Posted on 08/08/2025 12:27:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Speaking about Bonhoeffer to a reporter in 1970, Bethge said, “Americans make him a saint without seeing him as a man who had a dirty job to do.” Namely, plotting Hitler’s assassination and the overthrow of his tyrannical government.
“Yes, he is a modern saint,” Bethge continued. “But it has little to do with the old idea of sanctity and purity. He was a man of action whose sharp theological insights and Christian responsibility compelled him to act decisively in the real world of dirt, difficulty and danger.”
The primary weakness in Komarnicki’s depiction of Bonhoeffer is that, as played by Jonas Dassler, he comes across as a wholly unconflicted clerical commando, eager to take on his “dirty job.” This seemingly ignores the “peace ethic” to which Bonhoeffer was committed as well as his opposition to war in general, a stance he believed was directly commanded by God.
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Apparently it does not do justice to the great bio by Eric Metaxas.
This is the first time I’ve heard that Bonhoeffer was an assassin and spy.
According to Metaxas, Bonhoeffer had been trying to get more of the Christians in Germany to speak out against the Nazis, but by as early as the mid 1930s, they had simply lost too much ground to recover.
The movie version never lives up to the book, and this book was so good any movie version would leave us underwhelmed.
Great read. I have read it more than once.
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