With that kind of reaction, how could anyone take his work seriously? Since, the Bonhoeffer society & Family spoke out against the book & film, Metaxas is desperate to take something genuine ( Bonhoeffer) and reduce his legacy to something of a right wing fantasy.
I remember Mike Farrell and Ed Asner participated in a top notch documentary on the life of Bonhoeffer. If you want to check out on an accurate version, you might be able to find it on YouTube. It is called , Hanged on a Twisted Cross.
Goddamnit I just bought the Metaxas book! Now it seems like I won’t like what I am reading. My reading time is limited these days, so I don’t want to waste time on some intolerant evangelical crap.💩
I have been reading Bonhoeffer seriously since seminary and graduate school. I liked Metaxas on Wilberforce but I read Charles Marsh's excellent Biography of Bonhoeffer then I read Metaxas on Bonhoeffer and it in no way reflected my own reading of Bonhoeffer nor Marsh's so I have lost any respect I may have had for Metaxas as a scholar.
Does he ever actually bring up any evidence that these people are pro Hamas? Every last one of them? Certainly a few might be I suppose…
When I saw the trailer for the movie, I thought it kind of portrayed him as some kind of a steady, special ops undercover, Superman, like Clark Kent, ready to rip off his nerdy pastor collar and expose the big red and yellow “B” on the bodice of his blue spandex base layer. It just looked weird to me.
I have had several never Trump friends say that it doesn’t come off that way when they actually watch the movie, and that they actually found that it was a good warning against what is going on with Trump. (but then I ask why did the trailer give that impression ?) I suppose I will have to watch it at some point, but I’m not going to contribute to any box office returns.
I heard Metaxas speak some years back, read his Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer books. He was funny, and entertaining, and I had no reason to doubt his sincerity. Some reading after has convinced me that he was indeed skewing the narrative to suit his own purposes, and since then he has seemed to have completely gone off the rails. It's a real shame, sense he is an intelligent person, who at some point seemed to be in pursuit of the truth.
I have heard that many times. Same exact progression. Great at the beginning, seemed knowledgeable, humble even, but then really fell into a different place.
Can absolutely confirm the same. We were in the same evangelical circles in NYC and knew he and his wife well. I regularly attended Socrates in the City. Went to his Bonhoeffer talk(s) & other assorted presentations. Earnest, intelligent, humorous.
My reading his Bonhoeffer book, then connecting with someone at church who was integral to getting SITC off the ground, and hearing his perspective on EM was the beginning of the descent for me. Now he's unrecognizable to me.
There are quite a few of us who used to find approaches like his and Rush Limbaugh and such entertaining and funny. And now we realize how terribly awful it is if you aren’t solidly in the choir they’re preaching to.
With that kind of reaction, how could anyone take his work seriously? Since, the Bonhoeffer society & Family spoke out against the book & film, Metaxas is desperate to take something genuine ( Bonhoeffer) and reduce his legacy to something of a right wing fantasy.
I remember Mike Farrell and Ed Asner participated in a top notch documentary on the life of Bonhoeffer. If you want to check out on an accurate version, you might be able to find it on YouTube. It is called , Hanged on a Twisted Cross.
Goddamnit I just bought the Metaxas book! Now it seems like I won’t like what I am reading. My reading time is limited these days, so I don’t want to waste time on some intolerant evangelical crap.💩
So many better books on Bonhoeffer than the piece of trash from Metaxes.
1) The Cost of Discipleship
2) Life together
3) Ethics
4) Temptation
5) Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus by Reggie Williams
I have been reading Bonhoeffer seriously since seminary and graduate school. I liked Metaxas on Wilberforce but I read Charles Marsh's excellent Biography of Bonhoeffer then I read Metaxas on Bonhoeffer and it in no way reflected my own reading of Bonhoeffer nor Marsh's so I have lost any respect I may have had for Metaxas as a scholar.
Wow. Metaxas really went there. In a normal world, this would be career ending.
Under current conditions, this may be career enhancing. It is a sad time.
Does he ever actually bring up any evidence that these people are pro Hamas? Every last one of them? Certainly a few might be I suppose…
When I saw the trailer for the movie, I thought it kind of portrayed him as some kind of a steady, special ops undercover, Superman, like Clark Kent, ready to rip off his nerdy pastor collar and expose the big red and yellow “B” on the bodice of his blue spandex base layer. It just looked weird to me.
I have had several never Trump friends say that it doesn’t come off that way when they actually watch the movie, and that they actually found that it was a good warning against what is going on with Trump. (but then I ask why did the trailer give that impression ?) I suppose I will have to watch it at some point, but I’m not going to contribute to any box office returns.
Sadly, you may be right given how evangelicals have been twisted into pretzels in recent years.
Yeah, in a sane society Metaxas’ career would have ended several times already.
Whenever one of these righty types blames antifa for anything, I ask them to name one member of antifa.
At that point, they ignore me.
As Charlie Pierce says, these really are the Mole People.
I’m dying to join Antifa! Can someone tell me where to apply?
I heard Metaxas speak some years back, read his Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer books. He was funny, and entertaining, and I had no reason to doubt his sincerity. Some reading after has convinced me that he was indeed skewing the narrative to suit his own purposes, and since then he has seemed to have completely gone off the rails. It's a real shame, sense he is an intelligent person, who at some point seemed to be in pursuit of the truth.
I have heard that many times. Same exact progression. Great at the beginning, seemed knowledgeable, humble even, but then really fell into a different place.
Can absolutely confirm the same. We were in the same evangelical circles in NYC and knew he and his wife well. I regularly attended Socrates in the City. Went to his Bonhoeffer talk(s) & other assorted presentations. Earnest, intelligent, humorous.
My reading his Bonhoeffer book, then connecting with someone at church who was integral to getting SITC off the ground, and hearing his perspective on EM was the beginning of the descent for me. Now he's unrecognizable to me.
There are quite a few of us who used to find approaches like his and Rush Limbaugh and such entertaining and funny. And now we realize how terribly awful it is if you aren’t solidly in the choir they’re preaching to.
Predictable.
Of course he would…..