![]() ![]() The last of these letters was written on November 29, 1942, several months before his arrest: footnoteĪt the beginning of a letter that in this solemn hour is meant to call you all to true joy, there necessarily stand the names of those brothers who have died since I last wrote to you: P. He sent them a series of circular letters – hand-signed and hand-addressed – reporting on the activities and deaths of members of this circle, encouraging those remaining, and continuing their instruction. But Bonhoeffer worked hard to maintain ties among the Finkenwald seminarians and other Confessing Church pastors. Even the underground seminary that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had started in Finkenwald had been broken up by the Gestapo in 1939. ![]() But they do show what enabled him to bear the consequences of his opposition to the Nazi regime: his complete rootedness in Christ’s overcoming love.īy late 1942, the independent Confessing Church seminaries had been closed for five years. Did he, a convinced pacifist, take part in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler? Where was his theology heading? The following selections from his last writings will not resolve these questions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer – theologian, pastor, dissident, and martyr – will remain a controversial figure. ![]()
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