Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• when was Bonhoeffer born?

  Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Germany.
• what was Bonhoeffer life like?

  • moved to Berlin in 1912
  • father was very patriarchal
  • background of theologians
  • not born into a religious family- he was baptised
• Bonhoeffer's life-

  his brother died in war.

  became a pacifist.

  went to university of tubigen

  father was a psychologist
• what did Bonhoeffer do?

  spent a lot of time in the Church.

  set up an illegal confessional church in Berlin

  made a book called discipleship and another book ( cost of discipleship)
• How did Bonhoeffer oppose Hitler? 

  He spent most his time opposing Hitler 

  Involved in rescuing Jews 

  WW2- pacifism – active resistance 

  Finkelwalde: illegal seminary – for the confessional church