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Aug 29, 20218 min read

Aug 26 Nietzsche and the 'murder' of God

Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...

Aug 27, 20213 min read

August 20 Bultmann and Demythologisation

Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...

Jul 27, 20216 min read

July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

Jun 24, 20214 min read

June 25 The secret encyclical condemning Nazism

Today we remember how in a remarkable meeting in Rome Pope Pius XI missioned the American Jesuit John LaFarge to draft an encyclical on...

Jun 2, 20215 min read

June 3 Hitler's Pope?

Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...

May 29, 20213 min read

May 30 The Confessing Church resisting the Nazis

Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...

May 10, 20215 min read

May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian

Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...

Apr 7, 20215 min read

Apr 8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Nazis

Today we take the dark journey back to 1945 and travel to Germany and the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The theologian Dietrich...

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