Life and works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer narrated by Professor Alberto Conci
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian who played a central role in the fight against Nazism. With Hitler's rise to power, many Protestants welcomed the arrival of the regime, while Bonhoeffer was the first to address the issue of the relationship between the church and the dictatorship, arguing that the church had a duty to oppose political injustice.
In 1939, Bonhoeffer came closer to a resistance group against Hitler, becoming a crucial link between the international ecumenical movement and the German conspiracy. His efforts to help a group of Jews escape from Germany led to his imprisonment in April 1943. He was killed in Flossenburg on April 9, 1945.
With Professor Conci, curator of the last volumes of the critical edition of Bonhoeffer's works, we will explore the thought of the theologian and understand how it can guide us in the world around us. Today, as more than eighty years ago, it is necessary to recognize the evil that always appears "in the guise of light, of good deeds, of historical necessity" and to understand how to resist it in order to build a fairer world. As Bonhoeffer wrote, "It may be that tomorrow the dawn of the last day will break: then, and not before, we will gladly lay down our work for a better future."
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