Kevin O’Farrell is Director of Theological Education & Engagement at Joni and Friends, USA.
Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the plot to kill Hitler has been one of the most discussed and contested aspects of his witness. Kevin O’Farrell deftly shows us why so much of that attention is misguided wish-fulfilment. Bonhoeffer was neither a freewheeling existentialist nor a heroic warrior against evil. He was a theologian first and foremost who saw that faithful Christian action is oriented by a fundamentally Christocentric logic through which the vagaries of history and the violence within it are revealed in a totally unexpected light. * Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK *