Metaxas’s book contains plenty of essential information for the novice to this genre as well as compelling insights for the well informed. Bonhoeffer’s life story, while familiar to most in the world-wide Lutheran community, is not necessarily well known to the non-Christian or even the broader Christian world. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy, one of the most recent works1 on this famous Christian martyr, reads like a breathtaking piece of fiction that one would hope will be made into a movie - as was Metaxas’ previous work on Wilberforce. Eric Metaxas has written such a book, a biography of the famed Christian writer and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And if the author has done his job, the perception of the reader will be changed forever.
In such rare occasions, emotion becomes integrated with fact. The book is vivid, moving, drawing in the reader in the fashion of a good drama, all the while based on profound historical details.
Once in a while a nonfiction book comes along that captivates the attention of the reader on multiple levels.
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