Pacifist or Assassin?—Making Sense of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Pacifist or Assassin?—Making Sense of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Lifelong Learning | Available (Membership Required)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor during the Third Reich.  Though he advocated for peace throughout his life, in the final season of his life, he joined forces with the German resistance, which plotted to take Hitler's life.  His resistance cost him his life in the final days of Hitler's regime.  Who was this person and how did he justify his participation in the resistance effort?  Come and join the conversation over this interesting historical figure.

 

Burkholder, Benjamin
Benjamin Burkholder

Benjamin Burkholder, PhD lives in the North Hills of Pittsburgh and in his spare time enjoys the outdoors.  Ben and his wife moved to Pittsburgh over a decade ago so he could complete a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Duquesne University, which he finished in 2015.  Before that he completed a Th.M. in New Testament and an M.Div. from Talbot School of Theology.  Ben began teaching at La Roche University in 2012 and has taught both Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics for the University.  Several of Ben's academic publications can be accessed on the following site: https://laroche.academia.edu/BenjaminBurkholder.