Victoria’s Reviews > The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler > Status Update
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer had, through his life's writings and now his deeds, reframed the Christian life through a lens of action. He called for a radical obedience that was not cheap but costly. Fath wasn't just about creating a set of comforting thoughts about God; it was living out an ethic that called for sacrifice. You didn't just pray for the ranks to stop rolling, you three yourself in front of them.
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If the church, in this moment, did not exist to protect the other, it had no right to be called the church at all.
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"To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love."
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Rome had shown Dietrich the spiritual power of community. Frank Fisher had shown him what persecution felt like in Harlem and in the American South. ... But what could he do? How could the church - the true church, not the one dressed up in Nazi flags -respond?
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A wave of nationalism swept over Germany. Nationalism is an extreme form of patriotism rooted in feelings of superiority to others, especially towards those who seem different.
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