Bonhoeffer on “The Leader” Only the leader who is in the service of the penultimate and ultimate authority merits loyalty. • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The Führer and the Individual in the Younger Generation” in Clifford J. Green. The Bonhoeffer Reader • • • It is always a fraught proposition to speak of Nazi Germany and HitlerContinue reading “Bonhoeffer on “The Leader””
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Bonhoeffer: Who Am I?
This poem is from one of Bonhoeffer’s final prison letters, shortly before his execution. Though most of us are not facing certain death as he was, nevertheless I find the expressions in this poem relevant to what we may be experiencing and feeling in these uncertain days of pandemic and lockdowns. • • • WhoContinue reading “Bonhoeffer: Who Am I?”
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