Eric Metaxas - Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. The Third Reich

PRAISE FOR AMAZING GRACE: WILLIAM WILBERFORCE &THE HEROIC CAMPAIGN TO END SLAVERY

This is unquestionably the best biography I have ever read!

S. MICHAEL CRAVEN, PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR CHRIST AND CULTURE

Better than the movie!

FORMER NYC MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI

Bravo! Metaxass story reads like fiction! A masterful reintroduction to Wilberforce for our generation

DAVID S. KIDDER, CREATOR/CO-AUTHOR NYTIMES BESTSELLER THE INTNTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL

a superb introduction to historys greatest and most surprising social reformer. It will jolt the cynical and inspire the visionary.

OS GUINNESSSS, AUTHOR THE CALL

Metaxass book, well researched and written in a lively and sparkling style, will stir your heart.

GEORGE GALLUP, JR.

[M]agnificent! Metaxass work will stand as a living landmark.

THE REV. FLOYD FLAKE, PRESIDENT, WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMSSMSSMAN (NY)

If Wilberforce is your hero, as he is mine, this is the book for you.

J.C. WATTS, JR., FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMSSMSSMAN (OK)

Crackles with verve, intelligence, wit and insight.

DICK STAUB, BROADCASTER AND AUTHOR

a superb history of the British campaign against slavery.

STANLEY CROUCH, NY DAILY NEWS

[Metaxas] is an irresistible writer. A crackling bonfire of truth and clarity [told] with such a sharp eye and ready wit and moral passion that we are caught up in the momentum of it and blown away

JOHN WILSON, BOOKS&CULTURE

A superb, scholarly must-read book!

BARONESSSS CAROLINE COX, HOUSE OF LORDS

Metaxas tells the tale of Wilberforce with great energy, sympathy, clarity, and aplomb.

THOMAS HOWARD, AUTHOR DOVE DESCENDNDING: A JOURNRNEY INTNTO T.S. ELIOTS FOUR QUARTRTETS

Spectacular!

THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY

Fluidly told a compelling example of faith that leads not to meditation only, but to reflection.

FIRST THINGSGS

This may be the definitive book about Wilberforce. There are some that may be more detailed, but none which are so well-written, so engaging, so fabulously inspiring.

BYRON BORGER, BOOKNOTES

I have not been able to put it down. It totally captivated me. Not only is it beautifully written, but the story is truly an amazing grace. It is a book I treasure and will share with my friends.

DR. ALICE VON HILDEBRAND, AUTHOR, THE SOUL OF A LION

PRAISE FORBONHOEFFER
PASPASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY
A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE VS. THE THIRD REICH

For anyone whose faith has been strengthened by the life and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this is the biography you have always wanted. Eric Metaxas has written a rich, detailed, and beautiful account of the great pastor and theologian who gave us The Cost of Discipleship and sacrificed his life for opposing Hitler. Metaxas Bonhoeffer is a monumental achievement and a deeply important work.

GREG THORNBURY, PHD, DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN STUDIES AT UNION UNIVERSITY

With great skill, energy, and warmth, Eric Metaxas reminds us why the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands as a rebuke both to believers and skeptics. Rarely has the story of a Christian martyr been told with such realism and depth. Its a gem ofa book.

JOSEPH LOCONTE, LECTURER IN POLITICS, THE KINGS COLLEGE, NEW YORK CITY AND EDITOR OF THE ENDND oF ILLUSIONS: RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONFRNFRNFRONTNT HiTLERS GATHERING STORM

Dietrich Bonhoeffers great gift is that his understanding of faith in times of conflict speaks to generation after generation. Eric Metaxas Bonhoeffer is the biographyfor this generation. A masterpiece that reads like a great novel and weaves together in one opus an understanding of Bonhoeffers theology, the complex and tragic history of 20th century Germany, and the human struggle of a true Christian hero. Eric Metaxas is claiming his place as the preeminent biographer of Christianitys most courageous figures.

MARTIN DOBLMEIER, FILMMMMAKER, BONHOEFFER

A captivating and inspiring read from start to finish. Sets the record straight on Bonhoeffers commitment to Scripture and his unyielding passion for truth that led him to give up his life in the battle to save the Jews of Europe. Buy it. This bookcould change your life.

JAMES N. LANE, FOUNDER, NEW CANAAN SOCIETY; FORMER GENERAL PARTNER, GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.

Eric Metaxas has given us a portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer whose prophetic life in troubled times will chasten, clarify, and challenge our own. Readers will be caughtup in this vivid, lucid story that draws deeply from the intellectual wells and poetic energy that inspired Bonhoeffer.

Some readers may not agree with all of Metaxass arguments about Bonhoeffer, but that is not the point of this book. The point is to unsettle, to provoke, and to inspire. Crammed with insight, outrage, and urgency, this book positions Bonhoeffer where he belongs, in the ranks of the great Christian humanists who have struggled against the prevailing winds of culture to faithfully and bravely interpret Christianity for their historical moment.

This is also a deeply humanizing book, full of vignettes that reveal Bonhoeffer as a son, as a lover, a pastor, a friend, all in the context of the deadly work for which he is most remembered: resistance to the growing menace of Nazism.

CALEB J. D. MASKSKELL, ASSSSOCIATE DIRECTOR, JONATHAN EDWARDS CENTER, YALE UNIVERSITY (2004-2007), DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Eric Metaxas has delivered a masterwork of compelling literary and historical proportions.

This extraordinary biography exposes the formative impressions in Bonhoeffers life that reveal him as a gifted, complex, humanely sensitive 20th century figure responding to the call of God and his unfolding spiritual understanding of his times. Witness his uniquely personal engagement with Harlems Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Black spirituality, music, and racial concerns of the 1930sand his desire to impart renewed relevance to the Church with a Biblical understanding of social justice. Metaxas traces the crisis of conscience that leads him back to his fate in Germany, a pacifist with a calling to stop a madman at any cost.

Against the inexorable rise of Nazism, Bonhoeffer fought the acquiescence of the evangelical state church to Hitlers demands. The lessons for the 21st century will not be lost here. Bonhoeffers brief life spans to another generation of readers through Metaxas inimitable style and contemporary sensibility. This book begs to be read and discussed widely today.

GORDON RIDDLE PENNINGTON, CEO, BURNING MEDIA GROUP

As in his previous biography, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaignto End Slavery, Metaxas in Bonhoeffer brings to life the extraordinary and selfless accomplishments of a true hero. Metaxas has the rare skill of taking the mundane but crucial details of life and weaving them into a history that flows like a novel. For anyone interested in what the strength of belief and conviction can accomplish, Bonhoeffer is an essential read.

GERALD SCHROEDER, PHD, ISRAELI PHYSYSICIST AND TEACHER AT THE AISH HA TORAH COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES IN JERUSALEM, AUTHOR OF GENESIS ANDND THE BIG BANG AND THE SCIENCE OF GOD.

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PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY

A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE VS. THE THIRD REICH

ERIC METAXAS