Bonhoeffer's Letter to the American Church!? // Deep Dive into the book from Eric Metaxas

[@rogueprincess89]

I've seen that Bonhoeffer scholars, as well as the Bonhoeffer family, is against Metaxas' interpretation of Bonhoeffer. Do you have a suggestion of any other biography about him?

[@Back2theWord]

@@rogueprincess89 Interesting and I do not. If you do though, I would be all ears. And your comment about the scholars and family is exactly why I put a section in this video about the concerns and cautions we must have when using a historical figure like Bonhoeffer to push and promote something in our time. Thanks for your comment!

[@rogueprincess89]

@Back2theWord I saw the section, (i also watched Ortlund's video) but since you were still praising the biography Metaxas wrote, I was just wondering. 🙂

[@noelhausler2911]

Eric Metaxas biography has been roughly criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars.

[@Back2theWord]

@@noelhausler2911 Thanks for the info, do you know what biography Bonhoeffer scholars recommend? I just know lots of Pastors who always act like the Metaxas biography is the best known and most widely read biography on Bonhoeffer.

[@noelhausler2911]

@@Back2theWord A good biography and longer one than Metaxas is his friend Eberhard Bethge Dietrich Bonhoeffer A Biography. Bethge was a student of Bonhoeffer at Finkenlwalde Seminary. It is longer and more detailed but worth the effort. Metaxas is for people who want the basics and not into reading footnotes. Another is Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945 by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen. Also read his Letters from Prison. Another is Love Letters from Cell 92:The Correspondence Between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemmeyer 1943-45. If you want to know what preaching Bonhoeffer was exposed to in Harlem the black church read Against Cheap Grace in a World Come of Age:An Intellectual Biography of Clayton Powell, 1965 Neither Fundemantalist nor liberal his thought must have influenced Bonhoeffer. This was a time where lynching of blacks was taking place."Powell embraced the intellectual with the spiritual, critical of intellectual who rejected the spiritual and conservatives who rejected the intellectual' p.8.

[@noelhausler2911]

@@Back2theWord The size of Bethge's biography probably scares people off but well worth the effort.

[@noelhausler2911]

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[@noelhausler2911]

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