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QUOTE: There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have
for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the
perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated — in short, from the
perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian
behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action. [Letters and Papers from Prison (The view from
below Page 17)]
AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of
the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world
have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of
Discipleship a modern classic.
Apart from his
theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to the
Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and
genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of
the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate
Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by
hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23
days before the German surrender.
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