Updated November 22, 2024 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Feb 4 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran "pastor," heretical neo-orthodox " theologian" and anti- Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the extremely heretical, ungodly and apostate denomination Confessional Church , which was a liberal splinter of the German Christians, led in large part by the ungodly heretic Karl Barth and his followers, yet Bonhoeffer was even too liberal for this so-called church, which