"This is a theologically rich and courageous work. Whyte reads Bonhoeffer with honesty and repentance, refusing to idealise him while drawing deeply from his witness to Christ "from below." In confronting how white supremacy distorts the Christian imagination, Whyte offers a model of theology that binds confession together with faithful discipleship. In so doing, he calls readers-especially those who have benefited from historical entanglement with white supremacy-to a more truthful, Christocentric solidarity with the oppressed. It is unsettling and deeply hopeful, as it needs to be. If it receives the attention it deserves, it could provide a vital inspiration for many Christians today." -- Andrew Torrance, University of St Andrews, UK "As the United States strains under the spasms of nationalistic Christian fervor that afflicts our own social body, many Christians who find their religious identities pulled into dangerous contortions have continued to look to Bonhoeffer's legacy for help. For just that reason, Whyte's critique could not have come at a better time.

This book is neither a cynical takedown of Bonhoeffer for his internalized racism nor even an attempt to recover the flawed complex figure he was (pobody's nerfect!) It is instead a sensitive and careful interrogation of Bonhoeffer's place in a Christian ethics of exemplarity- a reading of Bonhoeffer against Bonhoeffer to prompt us to more critical modes of emulation in our own resistance to evil, guided not by hero myths but by material solidarity with those who suffer. A deeply conscientious book clearly borne of the very self-examination it commends." -- Sameer Yadav, Baylor University, USA.