![]() 1948), Prisoner for God: Letters and Papers from Prison (tr. His writings, which have had considerable influence on postwar ethics and theology, include The Cost of Discipleship (tr. After the state cracked down on the church, Bonhoeffer continued his ministry underground and eventually became involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler he was imprisoned for two years and hanged for his role in the plot. ![]() His ethical thinking led him to become an outspoken leader in the breakaway Confessing Church in Germany that openly declared its theological oppositon to Nazism in the Barmen Declaration of 1934. Bonhoeffer, influenced early by the thinking of the young Karl Barth, urged a conformation to the form of Jesus as the suffering servant in a total commitment of the self to the lives of others. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (dēˈtrĭkh bônˈhöfər), 1906–45, German Protestant theologian. ![]()
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