In 2007, Eric Metaxas published “Amazing Grace” ‘William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign (in the British Empire) to End Slavery.’ The highly acclaimed tome then becomes an equally popular movie.
Subsequently (2010), And even though it ignites tremendous popularity in the great opponent of Adolph Hitler and Nazism, the tale is seriously flawed; it propounds that Bonhoeffer is the product of a fundamentalist or Evangelical Christianity, which he certainly is not. He is instead a scholar of Judeo-Christian history and theology - from the beginning. Therefore, he is qualified to be the witness most trusted to rebuke what becomes the Holocaust.
This will is important in Eric Metaxas’ attempts to redeem himself in 2017 when he produces an important update of Martin Luther. Luther is rightly criticized for his bias in the 1520s when he leads early Protestantism askew in a dispute with the Hebrew population of Wittenberg. Dietrich Bonhoeffer understands the controversy and rescues his favorite theologian from ignominy. . . thereby permitting Metaxas to write “Martin Luther” ‘The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World.’
Richard J. Yost, So. Abington Twp., Pa.
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