Who is Dietrich Bonhoeffer and why is he left such an enduring legacy?

What should we think the new film about his life, Bonhofer, Pastor, Spy, Assassin?

These are a couple of questions we're going to explore today with L.A. Pacific University's Dr. Brandt Heimes,

who's the author of a 30-day devotional inspired by the new film.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell, and this is the Think Biblically podcast brought to you by Talbot School

Theology, Biola University. Brandt, thanks for coming on.

Thanks so much for having me.

Well, we're going to jump into Bonhofer, but I want to hear

what is your interest first? What got you into studying the life of Bonhofer? Yeah, I've been

really journeying with Bonhofer for I think almost 20 years now. It really started for me and

I was working on my M.Div.

I took a Bonhofer course in the summer.

And I ended up sprinting my ankle during the summer.

And one of the assigned reading books was the almost 1,000-page biography by Iberhard Bechie on Bonhoeffer.

Wow.

So I had some time to sit and really just, yeah, just to invest in some time and really

kind of reading through. And I had heard of Bonhoffer. I had read Life Together,

it cost of discipleship. But reading the biography really drew me in in a way. It was

pretty transformative, actually, to really see the history of World War II through this lens

of Bonhofer's journey and his writing and his theology. So that was really the beginning

of that for me. And then as I continued in my grad

studies, I continued to do work around Bonhofer. And I ended up doing my PhD, developing a

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