Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Written by Charles Marsh
Narrated by Paul Hecht
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Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh is the author of Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir (2022) and Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of His Theology and Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which won the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award in History/Biography and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Marsh teaches in the department of religious studies at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An ideal biography; there's not much more to say. Marsh is very good on almost everything, from social history to theology. The picture of Bonhoeffer moving from reactionary German to anti-Nazi saint is beautiful. Why Metaxas's awful book sells so much better than this one is a mystery even greater than that the God of Karl Barth.
I'm joking, of course. That one sells better because it helps people feel better about themselves. This one points out that, to be worthy of feeling good about yourself, you actually have to try to be a better person.