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| The historic Anna Amalia Library in Weimar |
A somber day . . .
Today
began our first academic tour of the semester that compliments our
courses "Christian Worldview and Apologetics" and "European-German History" --
with a stop in Flossenburg where Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed April
9, 1945, only days before the concentration camp was liberated by the
Americans. After Dr. Baker gave the AMBEX students an overview of
Bonhoeffer's life the group sang a hymn near the cell he spent his last
night alive on this earth but started a new life the morrow. "This is
the end — for me the beginning of life."
Later
in the afternoon we stopped at the Friedrich Nietzsche Archives where
he who said: "God is dead" spent the last few years of his life in
Weimar. Take away: Students experienced a vivid and unforgettable
contrast in Worldviews between Bonhoeffer and Nietzsche.
Tomorrow
we study German Classicism and the Enlightenment in Weimar - the
epicenter. In the morning we visit the residences of Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe and later in the day the home of Friedrick Schiller "German
Shakespeare". Other sites we will visit/study: the famed Anna Amalia Library, Johann Herder's Church,
Albert Schweitzer Monument, Christof Wieland, JS Bach, Franz Liszt,
etc.
Our first academic tour of the semester ends this
Sunday after we visit Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the life of Paul
Schneider "Pastor of Buchenwald", a true martyr.
The point
of this tour is for students to understand the progression and grasp
the limits of evil all the while seeing the sovereignty and grace of God
ultimately prevail.
Thank you for partnering with us to make this education possible.
In His grace,
Jerry Orr
Director, AMBEX
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