Ultimate Price: Testimonies of Christians Who Resisted the 3rd Reich (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570759550)

Through their stories and their own words this volume highlights seven inspiring men and women who felt compelled by their Christian faith to oppose the idolatrous Nazi regime. Some of their stories are well known, others less so: Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, imprisoned and executed for his role in a plot to overthrow Hitler; Jesuit Alfred Delp, executed for his role in the anti-Nazi Kreisau Circle; Franz Jagerstatter, 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. What were their motives? What convinced them, long before their vindication by history, that they must defend the truth and the dignity of human life at the cost of their own lives? In tracing their journeys, they challenge us to heed our own conscience; they bid us examine our own loyalties to kin and country in light of Christ's claims. They prod us to take our own stand with those Christ called "the least of these."

Author: Annemarie S. Kidder
ISBN-10: 1570759553
ISBN-13: 9781570759550
Publisher: Orbis Books
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2012
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2012 pg. 8
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 83
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 12