Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A New DVD in the Collection
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (LC call no. BX4827.B57 B664 2000), documents latter part of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and religious scholar. He experienced the horror of Nazi Germany and he confronted it. Struggling between his Christian values and loyalty to his homeland, he chose to stand up against the Nazis. He joined a conspiracy to overthrow the dictator, a course of action that would ultimately lead to his execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war’s end.
Bonhoeffer lived as he preached. His opposition to Nazism has inspired Christians across broad denominations and ideologies. He is commemorated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of England and the Church of Wales, and has inspired the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer in the courtyard of Tegel prison (summer 1944)
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I viewed this movie when it first arrived and was very disappointed. Bonhoeffer is a figure of great moral and historical importance, but the story line of this film is very disjointed.
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