I have a personal hero in the person of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I was excited to see the new book about his life by Eric Metaxas titled Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and especially since it was available on Audible for download. I was pleasantly surprised by the unabashedly Christian reading of it.
A definitive biography, but huge tome of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was written by Eberhard Bethge, one of Bonhoeffer's Seminary students and his best friend. Other wonderful books by relatives and people who knew Bonhoeffer give other views of his life. And Bonhoeffer was quite a writer, so reconstructing his thoughts with his actions and put into a timeline can be accomplished with much study. Eric Metaxas has done just that and given us a very readable and listenable biography of the great Christian thinker, filled with detail, but with a nice pace so as to allow for flow.
Some of the most interesting reads as a Christian are the writings of the Early Church fathers. Those who wrote shortly after the New Testament writers. I've found the myth of the Phoenix to be an incredible story that St. Clement related to the early church in his letter to the Corinthians. In the nearly identical time frame, turn of the first century, is St. Ignatius of Antioch. St. Ignatius left us with a number of letters. St. Ignatius is believed to have been one of the early persecuted Christians who was fed to the lions in the Roman Amphitheater.
I have been reading Disappointment with God by Phillip Yancey. It is a good book. It has sort of confirmed an idea I have been forming about our current economic situation.
. Today I came across this wonderful passage:
by Phillip Yancey. It is a good book. It has sort of confirmed an idea I have been forming about our current economic situation.
