Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45)

Major works

•          Letters and Papers from Prison

•          Ethik

Importance

•          Lutheran pastor and theologian

•          Was a pacifist who eventually opposed the Nazis even to point of violence

•          Involved with a failed assassination attempt of Hitler

•          Executed by the Nazis at age 39

•          Worked at Union Theological Seminary in NY for a while

•          Argued for a nonreligious interpretation of Christianity (“Religionless Christianity”)