Why Did Bonhoeffer Resist?
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 Cultural Experiences
 Travels
 Contacts
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Bonhoeffer’s Works
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Bonhoeffer’s Wedding
Speech
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Bonhoeffer vs. MLK Jr.
Bonhoeffer’s
New Years
Reflections
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Martin Luther King
Jr.s Nobel Prize
Acceptance Speech
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NGRAM
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 Comparison among three ideas that Bonhoeffer
heavily promoted during his ministry
 Notice Trends over time upward; especially
following Bonoeffer’s death
 Notice there is a similar trend following the death of
Martin Luther King Jr.
 Both men championed these ideas during their life
and they gained an upsurge after their deaths
Remembrance & Legacy
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 The Statues of
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer (far
right) and Martin
Luther King Jr.
(middle-left) on
Westminster
Abbey’s wall of
20th Century
Martyrs