between individuals as I and You; therefore their positions could be described as inter-personal personalism. Bonhoeffer goes beyond this usage in a quite original way to show that the concept of the person is fruitful for understanding corporate human communities, and the relation of individuals to them. A major impetus in this direction comes from the fact that Hegel had used Geist as a concept applying to both corporate and individual life; since Bonhoeffer interprets Geist by means of person,