Strange Glory

Charles Marsh offers an intimate and startling, portrait of the revered Christian marty, including being drawn into the officers' plot to kill Hitler, for his part in which he would be hanged. Bringing to life for the first time this complex human being--his substantial flaws, inner torment, the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him--Strange Glory is a momentous achievement.Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/BiographyShortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyIn the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time.