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Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this new critical edition features an insightful introduction by clifford green and an afterword from the german editions editors. Ethik is an unfinished book by dietrich bonhoeffer that was edited and published after his death by eberhard bethge in 1949. Bonhoeffer was a pastor in germany that was later arrested, imprisoned and executed by the nazis. Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy april 2010, thomas nelson, by eric metaxas. This year brings the 65th anniversary of the nazi hanging of dietrich bonhoeffer for his attempt to overthrow adolf hitler, and that martyrdom is well knownbut metaxas illuminates, mile by mile, the road to full resistance.
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