Greg Ligon - Bonhoeffers the Cost of Discipleship

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INTRODUCTION

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, born in Breslau on February 4, 1906, was the son of Karl Bonhoeffer, a university professor and leading authority on psychiatry and neurology. His mother, Paula von Hase Bonhoeffer, was the daughter of an aristocratic German family. Many of his father's ancestors were theologians by vocation, and his mother's family also included a number of religious practitioners. Dietrich's maternal grandfather was chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm and was ousted for disagreeing with the kaiser's political views. His mother's grandfather, Karl August von Hase, a historian by trade, was imprisoned for liberal theological views.