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The Crossway Podcast

The Life and Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Stephen Nichols)

The Crossway Podcast

Crossway

Books, Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In today's episode, Stephen Nichols discusses the remarkable life, tragic death and enduring legacy of the German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Stephen is the author of Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World. Read the full transcript. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Sign up for our mailing list here.

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0:00.0

At the break of dawn on April 9, 1945, an unassuming German pastor was hanged at the Floszenberg concentration camp in a remote part of Northeastern Germany.

0:14.0

And yet his death was just the culmination of years of service and sacrifice for the sake of Christ and his church.

0:22.8

In my interview today, I'm talking with Stephen Nichols about the life, death, and legacy

0:28.1

of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We discussed Bonhoeffer's work leading a movement of churches

0:33.8

in Germany that stood opposed to the Nazi regime. His role in Operation

0:39.0

Valkyrie, the famous plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and whether or not we should

0:44.3

view him as an evangelical in the modern sense of the word today. Stephen Nichols serves as president

0:51.4

of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer

0:55.2

at Ligner Ministries.

0:57.1

He's also the author of Bonhofer on the Christian Life, From the Cross for the World,

1:02.9

from Crossway.

1:04.8

Let's get started.

1:09.3

Well, Stephen, thank you so much for joining me again on the Crossplay podcast.

1:12.6

Oh, it's my pleasure. Always enjoy our conversations and certainly looking forward to this one.

1:17.6

For those of us who aren't as familiar with who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was,

1:22.6

I wonder if you could just start off by telling us a little bit about who he was, when he lived, where he lived, and then just very briefly, why is he so famous?

1:33.3

Well, probably the thing most people know about Bonifur, if they know anything about him, is his death.

1:39.3

He was hanged at the Flusenberg concentration camp in April of 1945.

1:47.0

The timing is crucial.

1:49.0

He was hanged literally just a few weeks before that particular concentration camp was liberated

1:56.0

by the Allied forces and he was executed by direct orders of Hitler himself in what turned

2:04.1

out to be the final weeks days of Hitler's life as the Third Reich and the Nazi regime fell

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