Martin Doblmeier — Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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🗓️ 2 February 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler’s Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most troubled and immoral of times. His resistance of Nazi ideology, while much of the German church succumbed, is a testament to his moral vision and faith. Krista speaks with producer Martin Doblmeier, whose 2003 documentary chronicled Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, about the legacy of this unusual theologian.

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0:22.4	I'm Krista Tippett. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in 1945
0:29.2	for conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Today with filmmaker Martin Dobelmeier,
0:35.2	we'll explore Bonhoeffer's original ideas about the nature of ethics,
0:40.0	the will of God, and Christianity without religion. Dobelmeier's documentary about Bonhoeffer
0:47.2	airs on PBS this month. Bonhoeffer saw the gospel at risk and what he said is there is no way to
0:54.0	peace along the way of safety. Peace is the great adventure. This man constantly was looking for
1:00.4	the will of God and accepting the fact that the will of God may not lead you to self-preservation.
1:06.8	It may call you to do things that you wouldn't normally want to do and that the call to
1:11.2	follow Jesus Christ is often the downward path. This is speaking of faith. Stay with us.
1:18.0	I'm Krista Tippett. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1:21.7	wrestled with religious principles in the thick of political and personal crisis. A pacifist
1:28.0	who became a Nazi resistor, he was executed for his part in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1:34.8	This hour, we'll explore Bonhoeffer's religious courage and creativity. His ideas have resonated
1:41.4	beyond his death and evolved in our time. From American public media, this is speaking of faith.
1:50.5	Public radio's conversation about religion, meaning ethics and ideas.
1:57.7	Today, ethics and the will of God, the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
2:06.0	Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born a century ago in 1906 to an intellectual and aristocratic
2:12.0	German family. He became and acclaimed theologian as a very young man before the rise of fascism,
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