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“For Bonhoeffer, the decisive insight was “that ‘telling the truth’ means different things, depending on where one finds oneself. The relevant relationships must be taken into account. The question must be asked whether and in what way a person is justified in demanding truthful speech from another.”[5] With this, Bonhoeffer negates the principled duty to state the objective facts in each and every circumstance.”
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Bonhoeffer soberly observed that peace could not be reached by taking the path of security. Whoever wanted security would necessarily be distrustful of the other, and precisely this was what supported war. In contrast, peace was always a risk, a dare in which one yields completely to God’s command.”
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We do believe in all sorts of things, far too many things in fact. We believe in power, we believe in ourselves and in other people, we believe in humankind. We believe in our own people [Volk] and in our religious community, we believe in new ideas—but in the midst of all those things, we do not believe in the One—in God. And believing in God would take away our faith in all the other powers, make it impossible to believe in them. If you believe in God, you don’t believe in anything else in this world, because you know it will all break down and pass away.”
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
― Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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