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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...

training nor any specialized aptitude for a person to understand the depths of life and of the deity. It requires merely that we acknowledge the exclusive honor due the eternal God and acknowledge our own nothingness before God. (359) It speaks of God’s grace toward the sins of the big cities, about God’s love where misery and guilt accumulate in frightening proportions, where calloused hands perhaps are clenched fists, in defiance of fate. You, human being, no matter who you are, you are God’s child,
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