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Survey Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s most important writings, compiled for the first time into one valuable resource, The Bonhoeffer Reader. This volume makes a perfect introduction to Bonhoeffer’s thought, with selections drawn from the 16-volume Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a major 25-year translation project supported by the International Bonhoeffer Society and published by Fortress Press. Edited by...

Cor. 13:2).6 Emotional love loves the other for the sake of itself; spiritual love loves the other for the sake of Christ. That is why emotional love seeks direct contact with other persons. It loves them, not as free persons, but as those whom it binds to itself. It wants to do everything it can to win and conquer; it puts pressure on the other person. It desires to be irresistible, to dominate. Emotional love does not think much of truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the
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