Dietrich was born in Breslau in 1906. He had a very large family and he was the sixith of eight children. Dietrich's father was a famous doctor of psychiatry. His father was also very well known neurologist. His father and his vast knowledge sparked young Dietrich to learn about many complex issues. Breslau was nominally a Lutheran settlement, though not a profoundly religious environment, and the young Bonhoeffer ruffled a lot of feathers when at the age of fourteen Dietrich announced that he wanted to be a theologian.

He studied at Thubingen and Berlin University and his dissertation has been said to be a theological miracle. He wrote his dissertation, Sanctorum Communio, at the end of three years at the University of Berlin (1924-1927) and was awarded his doctorate with honors. Act and Being, his H

The Ethics is Bonhoeffer's most technical theological work. Written from 1940-1943 and based on when a man tries to decide what is right and wrong. Bonhoeffer wrote that "instead of knowing only the God who is good to him and instead of knowing all things in Him, [man] knows only himself as the origin of good and evil." With this statement, Bonhoeffer is said to have entered one of the most difficult theological problems in the history of the church: the problem of evil.

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Letters and Papers from Prison is one of Bonhoeffer's most personal and moving achievements. These letters represent some of Bonhoeffer's most mature work, as well as troubling observations concerning the church in the middle years of the twentieth century.

He took a teaching position in theology at the University of Berlin in August 1931. Bonhoeffer also pastored a German congregation in Barcelona during 1929-1930. Following his ordination at St. Matthias Church, Berlin, in November 1931, he was to help organize the Pastors' Emergency League in September 1933 and the Reformed Church of St. Paul in London. Also in 1933 the leader of the radical, racialist Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler, became chancellor and then dictator of Germany. In power, the Nazi movement sought to create a new totalitarian state: the Third Reich. Bonhoeffer saw Nazism

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