{"id":6271,"date":"2010-05-09T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/pastor-martyr-prophet-spy.html"},"modified":"2010-05-09T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:21:26","slug":"pastor-martyr-prophet-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/05\/pastor-martyr-prophet-spy.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bonhoeffer.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Kris and I will be going to Ireland in about a month and I have already picked the book I will read on the plane: Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>. This year I began both my 4th Yr Seminar classes and the Spring Jesus classes by reading portions of Bonhoeffer’s books: Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em> and Discipleship<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>. And just this week the scholarly edition of Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 8)<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em> arrived. <\/p>\n

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If I had a second academic career, I would have chosen to specialize in Bonhoeffer studies.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, back to the biography by Eric Metaxas. I wasn’t going to mention this book on this blog until we got back from our trip but I opened it up, began perusing and was snatched up once again into Bonhoeffer’s tragic life and brilliant thought. I had to force myself to wait, and I hope that’s enough to convince a few of you to read this new book and then spend some huge chunks of time diving into his great books. It is easy to get lost in a sea of facts but Metaxas has shown me already he can keep the excitement of the plot of his life and thought at a pace to keep us from getting bogged down in Germany’s tragic succumbing to Nazism or needless details about his life.<\/div>\n
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Tim Keller wrote the foreword, a brief on the value of Bonhoeffer for sustaining costly grace in our age as well.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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