BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH


Meaning of BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH in English

(1906-1945) German Lutheran pastor; had mystical tendencies; coined term "cheap grace" and "religionless Christianity" a member of resistance against Nazis; imprisoned 1943-1945 for plotting to kill Hitler; hanged; wrote 1. The Cost of Discipleship ; 2. Ethics ; 3. Creation and Fall ; and 4. Letters and Papers from Prison .

Theological and philosophical biography English dict.      Английский словарь богословской и философской биографии .