Patricia McCormick has written many books but I have only read Sold, which was just exceptional, so I need to read more from her. Read this that she wrote last fall. It is very powerful about another man's evil actions.
Bonhoeffer might have felt that he committed evil acts, but I was thinking about Hitler when I wrote that sentence!
This book was so good in that it raised questions for me and answered questions. I really want to know more about Bonhoeffer and especially his relationship with Karl Barth, another theologian I admire. But Bonhoeffer and Barth get into it here. McCormick says that Barth criticized Bonhoeffer for his role in the plot against Hitler. At least that's what it sounded like to me. But other places say that Barth was mad at Bonhoeffer not because he thought Hitler shouldn't be opposed or thwarted, but that Bonhoeffer was kind of a coward for running away from the Nazis and being safe back in the US, while others were dying in Europe. I want to look into this more. Barth was very anti-Hitler, but the way that McCormick described his conversation with Bonhoeffer, having not known anything else, I would have assumed that Barth was more "live and let live" when it came to Hitler. Again, that is just me, not having known anything, but this is a book for kids, so it just worries me because the readers might not know about Barth and the Confessing Church and so forth.
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