Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Challenged by Bonhoeffer

Alan Wolfe has written for The New Republic a very fine review of Eric Metaxas' new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.  While he is certainly not alone in his praise both for the book and for the man whose life it chronicles, his review goes further than most.  Toward the end of it, Wolfe wrestles very seriously with the challenge of ethical excellence presented by Bonhoeffer's life and death witness, and thereby forces his readers to do the same.  You really must read this review.
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5 comments:

  1. sfJanuary 19, 2011 at 10:44 AM

    Thanks for recommending this....

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  2. The Sage of Mount AiryJanuary 19, 2011 at 1:39 PM

    My pleasure. You know him, don't you, from BC?

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  3. sfJanuary 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    I know of him but don't know him. He's the bete noire of the Straussians at BC.

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  4. kenJanuary 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM

    I attended his NEH summer seminar on morality and politics at BU back in the summer of 1996. He was more moderate back then, but rejected natural law, preferred Douglas over Lincoln, etc. He has some center for the study of religion but is not at all religious.

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  5. sfJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    Fr. Neuhaus was always taking potshots at Wolfe in "First Things." He was the perfect choice for Boston College, being the epicenter of half-baked Catholicism.

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