Timothy Keller is the founder and senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God. He is a senior fellow and lecturer at large at the Kings College in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and daughter. Metaxas is also the founder of Socrates in the City, the acclaimed series of conversations on 'life, God, and other small topics,' featuring Malcolm Gladwell, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, Baroness Caroline Cox, and Dick Cavett, among many others. He is the host of The Eric Metaxas Radio Show, a daily nationally syndicated show aired in 120 U.S. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, and Metaxas has appeared as a cultural commentator on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. It is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil.Įric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, If You Can Keep It, Miracles, Seven Women, Seven Men, and Amazing Grace. Since his death, Bonhoeffer has grown to be one of the most fascinating, complex figures of the twentieth century.īonhoeffer brings the reader face-to-face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfullyeven to the point of death. As a double agent, he joined the plot to assassinate the Führer, and he was hanged in Flossenberg concentration camp at age thirty-nine.

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a young pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer become one of the first to speak out against Hitler.

From the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, a man who stood up to Hitler.Ī definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.

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