Christianity - Jesus and Some Key Christians

Answer 3 contains elements of truth but is irrelevant to the question; all the others are essentially true and relevant. For more on this see ICHTHYS (or ICHTHUS) on Wikipedia.

Paul's conversion was certainly dramatic, but St Peter and any others were not involved. Chapter 9 of Acts, in any accessible translation of the Bible, vividly tells what is said to have happened.

The false answers may each make quite a good story, but Acts chapter 20 tells the original tale ~ as chronicled by St Luke, a trained doctor (whose knowledge may have seemed primitive by modern standards, but we must trust he would have recognised life from death).

All those William-s! And the politician William Pitt was genuinely and actively involved, too. The slave trade was formally abolished in 1807.

She was an outstanding case of Christian compassion in action in a place of need, on such a scale as earlier believers could hardly have begun to imagine.

Rather sadly after such an outstandingly active life, he apparently declined into depression and paranoia in later years, one symptom of which was that he lost his faith and, ironically, died a sad death in a sanatorium or hospital. One would probably pray that when judgement came, God in His own wisdom and mercy would have seen he was rewarded on his overall merits.

If you chose answer 4, see our next question!

There seem to have been some turbulent times in his childhood and teens (see Wikipedia). We may rightly regard him as virtually 'a modern saint' for his overall achievement (and perhaps, also, his martyr's death in the cause) ~ yet maybe there is a grain of hope for others of us, in that he was far from totally perfect.

The quote is genuine, but refers to the Nazis' open persecution of the Jews from 1933. Practising Christians may find themselves compelled to express such harsh truths in difficult times. Since Bonhoeffer was killed by the Nazis, sadly he could not have been around to comment on the bus boycotts or the US Civil Rights movement generally, some ten years later ~ though had he lived, such may well have been his view.

As mentioned in the question, a prior trip to the US at a formative age had put him in strong sympathy with the faith of the (mainly black) southern Baptists, and one can well imagine his meditations being accompanied to a mental soundtrack of Negro Spirituals ~ a label we may still nobly use in musical and cultural scholarship, to identify such songs as 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' and 'Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?', which were the Afro-American response to Christian stories the slaves were told in between their stints of work. Collectively (though of course, sadly) they form an eloquent, echoing living response to the experience of oppression. If musically inclined, you may wish to explore the masterly settings by Harry Burleigh, perhaps in performance by Paul Robeson, and probably trackable-down on YouTube.

The book may (in some ways) now thankfully appear somewhat dated, but brims with extraordinary and evocative anecdotes and is thoroughly recommended. The story from his mission trial in the Scots seminary, about the chocolate cake, is a remarkable ~ if comparatively trivial ~ example of faith and providence in action, but there are many far stronger and more plangent tales to follow.