Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s best friend and biographer, noted that as a result of Bonhoeffer’s transition from academic theologian to practicing Christian, Bonhoeffer began to personally engage in Christian practices that he previously ignored or spoke of only academically.
As Søren Kierkegaard once put it:
Read Full Article »To what shall we compare the relation between the thinker’s system and his actual existence?
A thinker erects an immense building, a system, a system which embraces the whole of existence and world history, etc. — and if we contemplate his personal life, we discover to our astonishment this terrible and ludicrous fact, that he himself personally does not live in this immense high-vaulted palace, but in a barn alongside it, or in a dog kennel, or at the most in the porter’s lodge.
