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Article: Writings of theologian hanged by Nazis are revived. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 3, 1993
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PHILADELPHIA _ In a life span of just 39 years, Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived the kind of grand drama that becomes legendary. A scion of German affluence, he became a pastor, an outspoken critic of Nazism and a co-conspirator in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was hanged in a Nazi concentration camp less than a month before the end of World War II.
But Bonhoeffer's legacy is more than the fascinating story of a martyr's death in a time and place where Christian heroes were few. It is his writings, which insist that authentic faith entails courageous service to the needy and oppressed, that have placed him among the most important religious thinkers of ...