Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Christian martyr Christian theologian German Lutheran theologian Lutheran pastor anti-Nazi dissident human theologian writer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident whose writings and martyrdom profoundly shaped modern Christian ethics and resistance theology.

Aliases (1)

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian martyr → Christian theologian → German Lutheran theologian → Lutheran pastor → anti-Nazi dissident → human → theologian → writer →
arrestedBy	Gestapo →
causeOfDeath	execution →
clergyType	Lutheran pastor →
countryOfCitizenship	Germany →
dateOfBirth	1906-02-04 →
dateOfDeath	1945-04-09 →
denomination	Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union →
doctoralAdvisor	Reinhold Seeberg NERFINISHED →
educatedAt	Humboldt University of Berlin NERFINISHED → Union Theological Seminary → University of Tübingen NERFINISHED →
familyName	Bonhoeffer →
fieldOfWork	Christian ethics → ecclesiology → resistance theology → systematic theology →
fullName	Dietrich Bonhoeffer →
givenName	Dietrich →
influencedBy	Karl Barth → Martin Luther → Søren Kierkegaard →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
mannerOfDeath	execution by hanging →
memberOf	Confessing Church →
movement	Confessing Church →
notableIdea	Christ existing as community → costly grace → religionless Christianity →
notableWork	Ethics → Letters and Papers from Prison → Life Together → The Cost of Discipleship →
occupation	pastor → theologian → university lecturer →
opposed	Adolf Hitler → Nazism →
participantIn	German resistance to Nazism →
placeOfBirth	Breslau → German Empire → Province of Silesia →
placeOfDeath	Bavaria → Flossenbürg → Flossenbürg concentration camp → Nazi Germany →
placeOfDetention	Flossenbürg concentration camp → Tegel Prison →
religion	Christianity → Lutheranism →
residence	Berlin → London → New York City →
sibling	Klaus Bonhoeffer → Sabine Bonhoeffer →
theologicalInfluenceOn	modern Christian ethics → resistance theology →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Union Theological Seminary → University of Tübingen →	hasNotableAlumnus
Karl Barth → Søren Kierkegaard →	influenced
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ("Bonhoeffer") →	familyName
Dietrich Bonhoeffer →	fullName
Christian ethics →	hasHistoricalFigure
Union Theological Seminary →	hasNotableFaculty
Buchenwald →	notablePrisoner