Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Koster

This book is a highly significant study on the concept of Christian discipleship as it was forged in response to the Nazi tyranny. There is no shortage of studies on the stances of the German churches under the Third Reich, a scenario which continues to excite debate and controversy today. Paul Spanring's contribution however is unusual and indeed quite original, for from that traumatic period he brings into mutual relation German Lutheranism's most famous figure of resistance and martyrdom and an almost unknown Baptist pastor who in his own and rather different way also rejected the idolatry of blood, race and soil.