In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest. When he tackles a topicsuch as the recent award-winning Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas I read this book about a month back and reviewed it over at 5 Minutes for Books. E ric Metaxas is one of the better writers in evangelicalism. they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. ERIC METAXAS is the author of four New York Times Bestsellers, including the 1 Bestseller, BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, which was named Book of the Year by the ECPA and sold over one million copies in 19 languages. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfullyeven to the point of death.

Such people neither steal, nor murder,nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. 'Bonhoeffer' gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. 'Reasonable people,' he said, think that 'with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the joints.' Then there are the ethical 'fanatics' who 'believe that they can face the power of evil with the purity of their will and their principles.' Men of'conscience' become overwhelmed because the 'countless respectable and seductive disguises and masks in which evil approaches them make their conscience anxious and unsure until they finally content themselves with an assuaged conscience instead of a good conscience.' They must 'deceive their own conscience in order not to despair.' Finally there are some who retreat to a 'private virtuousness.

“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil.

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