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Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision: A Case for Costly Discipleship and Life Together is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is best known for his role in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and his subsequent execution at the hands of the Nazis. However, most of us are less familiar with his tireless work educating seminary students for a life of pastoral ministry—a role that occupied him for most of his adult life. Anchored in a variety of influential lectures, personal letters, and major works...

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin. When we allow nothing but God’s word to stand between us, judging and helping, it is a service of mercy, an ultimate offer of genuine community. (105) This fourth service gives substance to Bonhoeffer’s emphasis on hearing and forgiving. One does not merely put up with whatever another
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