Bonhoeffer Historian: "The Film Invented A Different Man"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor, theologian and opponent of Hitler who was executed by the Nazis aged just 39. But has the Bonhoeffer of history become obscured by the Bonhoeffer of legend?
Mike Bird is joined by historian John McCabe for the first of three episodes exploring Bonhoeffer’s life and death.
They discuss the Confessing Church, his radical seminary at Finkenwalde, his decision to return to Germany as war approached and the difficult line between Christian discipleship, resistance and survival.
McCabe also explains why he believes some modern portrayals have created an “imaginary…
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