Ultimate Price

Seven courageous Christians whose faith inspired them to resist the Nazi regime. Through their own words and their stories Ultimate Price highlights the witness of seven men and women compelled by their Christian faith to resist the idolatrous Nazi regime. What were their motives? What convinced them, long before their vindication by history, that they must defend the dignity of human life and the integrity of the gospel, even at the cost of their own lives? Some of these seven martyrs are well known, others less so. They include Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, imprisoned and executed for his part in a plot to overthrow Hitler; Jesuit Alfred Delp, executed for his role in the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle; Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant who refused to take a military oath; Sophie Scholl, a young university student and part of the doomed White Rose conspiracy; hymn writer and novelist Jochen Klepper; Berlin's Cathedral provost Bernhard Lichtenberg; and recently beatified Jesuit preacher Rupert Mayer. In tracing these martyrs' journeys, Ultimate Price challenges us to heed our own conscience, examine our own loyalties to kin and country in light of Christ's claims, and to take our own stand with those Christ called "the least of these." - Publisher.

Year

2012

Language

English

Publisher

Orbis Books

Editions

1

Pages

208

ISBN

9781570759550

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