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On Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Six Questions for Eric Metaxas

By Scott Horton — 2010

Eric Metaxas, whose best-selling biography of William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, provided the framework for an important motion picture, is now out with a thick review of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian who played a key role in one of the attempts to kill Adolf Hitler. I put six questions to Metaxas about Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

Read on harpers.org

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An Introduction to Conscience

Listen to your conscience, the old saying goes. But how do we follow that advice, and what do we do when staying true to our conscience contradicts conventional wisdom and behaviors expected or encouraged by society? Before listening to our conscience, we must be capable of identifying what it is.

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2022
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How Your Brain Invents Morality

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

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Sigal Samuel
2019
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So Others May Live

The real, profound worth of life is revealed when one’s life is dedicated to the well-being of humanity.

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Fethullah Gülen
2019
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Searching for Our Souls

Our modern society has gone astray during much of the past several centuries. While every person is in pursuit of one thing or another, we are searching for our own soul.

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Fethullah Gülen
2020
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How to Respond to Oppression

Oppression is everywhere and exists in almost every form. How should believers respond to oppression when they have to face it? Fethullah Gülen responds.

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Fethullah Gülen
2021
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How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

Surely any support for a belief in an afterlife, no matter how tenuous, is better than none? Isn’t it bound to be a comfort? It may not work out like that.

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John Shand
2011
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Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate

Writing “The Plague” in the form of a historical “chronicle” was a hopeful gesture, implying human continuity, a vessel to carry the memory of war as an inoculation against future armed conflicts.

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Laura Marris
2020
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The Rebel Hero: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning Amidst the Absurd

In Camus’ humanism man must look within and without in order to feel relief from his suffering in seeing himself as part of the whole of mankind:

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Meghan E. Von Hassel
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Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus’s Metaphysical Rebellion

Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently known as an author of fine French literature but he was also a philosopher.

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Scot N. DuFour
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Called to Sympathy and Action

Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior.

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Regina Nigro
2010
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