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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...

concern, for if “we abide in truth and in truth alone, our path will be the right one” (420). An examination of the Bible also shows that the Scriptures do not reveal every detail of any particular course of action (420). Rather, the Bible requires one to follow Christ in faith as a doer of truth. Bonhoeffer notes that some of his Confessing Church colleagues asked for clear biblical evidence that they were on the right path to refuse to become legalized. To them he replies that the Bible does not
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