Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Summer Repeat)

In Our Time

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of the German theologian, born in Breslau/Wroclaw in 1906 and killed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on 9th April 1945. Bonhoeffer developed ideas about the role of the Church in the secular world, in particular Germany after the Nazis took power in 1933 and demanded the Churches' support. He strongly opposed anti-Semitism and, with a role in the Military Intelligence Department, took part in the resistance, plotting to kill Hitler and meeting with contacts in the Allies. Bonhoeffer's ideas on Christian ethics and the relationship between Christianity and humanism spread more widely from the 1960s with the discovery of unpublished works, including those written in prison as he awaited execution. With Stephen Plant Dean and Runcie Fellow at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge Eleanor McLaughlin Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Winchester and Lecturer in Ethics at Regent’s Park College at the University of Oxford And Tom Greggs Marischal Chair of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:56.1	Hello, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 to 1945, was a Lutheran Theologian who stood up to Hitler
1:02.2	as he threatened to destroy the core of the German Church.
1:05.8	The Nazis imposed antisemitic rules on their approved Protestant Church, disgusting Bonhoeffer,
1:11.4	as at the very least, this denied the durations of Jesus.
1:14.7	He helped set up a breakaway church to keep Christian values alive until the Nazis fell.
1:20.5	Bonhoeff was executed for conspiring to kill Hitler, but not before setting up his ideas
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