Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler''s Germany. The Reich''s political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus into a divine representation of the ideal, racially pure Aryan and allowed race-hate to become part of Germany''s religious life. Bonhoeffer provided a Christian response to Nazi atrocities.

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