Paul M. James

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

History & Biography

“The book has some penetrating insights and is a real contribution to the study of Bonhoeffer's life and thought.... There are parts of the book which will move anyone who reads them. For example, the final chapter ends on a wonderful high, by quoting the camp doctor who was present at Bonhoeffer's hanging: 'In fifty years as a doctor I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.' Whatever reservations we may have about Bonhoeffer's orthodoxy he was clearly a man who followed Christ at a great cost. He lived and died as he preached.”