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Bonhoeffer and responsibility

by on January 3, 2008, in Books

(Jon) I’m getting inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s “Life Together,” and I have yet to get beyond the introduction. Here are two quotes from the book’s intro that ring true: “The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.” — Bonhoeffer’s friend Eberhard Bethge “For him Christianity could never be merely intellectual theory, doctrine [...]

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