![]() ![]() ![]() After reading this book, one would think Bonhoeffer was a German-speaking blend of John Piper, George Washington, Mike Huckabee, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln. Negatively, I do believe Metaxas wrongly casts Bonhoeffer as a patriotic evangelical (as I rightly gathered from the above mentioned interview). Though the book did drag along at points (it could have been much shorter!) it was arranged in a readable manner. This might sound trivial, but I also liked the size of the chapters – they were just perfect to read in one sitting. I also enjoyed the historical side of the book, since I’ve read scores of books that have to do with WWII. Metaxas is a good writer and uses the English language well. Somebody recently gave me Metaxas’ book to read, so I decided to read it after all. ![]() Bethge’s biography of Bonhoeffer on my “to read” list instead of Metaxas’. I didn’t want to read a book that “Americanized” Bonhoeffer so I put E. I wasn’t going to read it for two reasons: 1) because I don’t usually read popular biographies of theologians whose works I’ve read extensively, and 2) because I was completely annoyed with Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas’ discussion of Bonhoeffer where they treated him like an American, patriotic, conservative evangelical. ![]() I finally got around to reading Eric Metaxas’ highly publicized biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. (NOTE: This is a repost from October, 2011). ![]()
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