Champion of freedom : Dietrich Bonhoeffer / by Michael Martin.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer had strived to discern GodÆs will since his youth. After earning his doctorate in 1927 and spending several years preaching, teaching, and studying in Europe and America, he returned to Berlin in the summer of 1931. As a university lecturer in theology and a pastor, he quickly climbed the ranks of church leadership in Germany and eventually found himself leading a fierce struggle to oppose the Nazis's anti-Christian policies. Bonhoeffer's anti-Nazi stance caught the attention of the German Resistance. His family had connections in high-level circles, and he obtained a position in the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence agency. Acting as a double agent, he joined the Resistance and became complicit in the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader and dictator of Germany. After successive assassination attempts failed, Bonhoeffer's cover was broken. Along with the other conspirators, he was implicated, imprisoned, and executed as an enemy of the state-a mere two weeks before Hitler took his own life and the war ended. Bonhoeffer sensed God's role in all of this. His life took different turns along the way, yet his faith remained unwavering at each turn. His story is one of action, of ideas in motion, and still today his life baffles and inspires people of all faiths from across the world. Book jacket.