Battle for Bonhoeffer

Short review: There is some enjoyment in reading a very well written screed about the misuse of Bonhoeffer. The screed isn't unwarranted, there really is a need for books like this. Bonhoeffer may not be of particular interest to you, so you may not want to pick this up. But this is a good reminder of the value of intellectual honesty, academic rigor and fully understanding a subject before you use the subject to prove your point.

It is a brief read, but I think worth picking up.

The subtitle is Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump and the end of the book deals directly with how Bonhoeffer has been used and mostly misused as a patron saint by different political sides over the past 8 to 10 years. Eric Metaxas is specifically and extensively called out for his bad use of Bonhoeffer. And the author is not writing as a disinterested academic. He ends the book with an open letter to Christians that continue to support Trump after the election. And while I think all of this is appropriate, I really doubt that a lot of Trump supporters will be picking the book up, even if it is actually a good book that is primarily focused on helping Christians rightly use historical data.

My full review: http://bookwi.se/battle-for-bonhoeffer/