Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (born 1906)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German theologian (1906–1945)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of…