After Iâ??d given a talk to mark the 70th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoefferâ??s execution, I got a letter complaining that Bonhoeffer had been drained dry of meaning and was of no more use to the church. Hereâ??s what I replied.
Bonhoeffer was theological. We donâ??t all have to write two doctoral theses by the age of 24. But we do have to approach every challenge as fundamentally a question about God. The German Christians were seduced into treating the führer as God. Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church saw that the problem with the Nazis was first a theological problem.
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