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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...

and position, would disappear.20 It was possible that Christians would not be allowed to meet if they did not please the state. Believers would have to make do with Christ and his people alone. One could simply write off the sterner statements about the minister’s role as special for Bonhoeffer’s time except for three very important facts. First, Bonhoeffer’s biblical exegesis is sound. His comments fit the Bible’s overall conception of servants of Jesus Christ who serve the church in roles of responsibility
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