Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and theologian, was born on today in 1906. He acquired his doctoral diploma from the University of Berlin at the age of 21. After residing in Barcelona, Spain and the United States, Bonhoeffer returned to the identical college in 1931 as a lecturer in theology. He helped set up the Pastor’s Emergency League towards the Nazi regime and was a number one spokesperson for the confessing church. Bonhoeffer actively participated in the German resistance motion and was arrested and later hanged after being implicated in a 1944 assassination try on Adolf Hitler.
In his revolutionary guide Letters and Papers from Prison, Bonhoeffer proclaimed, “Jesus doesn’t name males to faith however to life.” God has hassle with us once we attempt so arduous to be holy that we neglect to be human. Bonhoeffer was satisfied that the Holy One must be affirmed and celebrated in the midst of life:
“I ought to like to talk of God not on the borders of life, however at its middle, not in weak point however in energy, not due to this fact in man’s struggling and dying, however in his life and prosperity.”
Bonhoeffer urges us to convey God into all components of our lives, together with our moments of private triumph, familial happiness, and stable pleasure in a job properly completed.
Celebrate Bonhoeffer’s birthday by:
Prayers & Mantras
Contemplating this citation by Bonhoeffer on prayer as “respiration alongside God.”
Books
Reading some of Bonhoeffer’s writings. This assortment is an excellent one.
Films
Watch the DVD of the award-winning movie Bonhoeffer directed by Martin Doblmeier.
