Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace is 2000 biographical movie directed by Eric Till. It ...

In his comparative study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., Deotis Robert presents striking parallels in the biographies and theological commitments of the two activist-theologians.

For filmmakers with points to make about good versus evil (and not necessarily subtle ones), World War II would seem a safe space. Take the shortened life of anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in 1945, two weeks before his fellow prisoners were liberated from the Flossenbürg concentration camp, which doesn’t do much for one’s sense of justice.

For more from the Christian Century, click here to sign up for free newsletters. Buried in the foreword to Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the not-quite-disavowed blueprint for the incoming ...

The new biopic from Angel Studios twists the theologian’s life and thought to make a political point. Fifteen years ago, scholar Stephen Haynes mapped out the many interpretations of the life of ...

Foremost among the theological influences on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s generation was the development of the Confessing Church. German Protestant Christianity was not a particularly likely place for ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a theologian who should be studied by those in the ministry. Indeed, I suspect he is one of the few recent theologians who has been read or at least admired by those in the ...

In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned some extreme words: “When Christ calls a person, he bids him come and die.” Unfortunately, those words were personally prophetic. In April 1943, the Gestapo ...