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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...

The reliable path of duty seems to offer the escape from the bewildering plethora of possible decisions. Here, that which has been commanded is clutched as the most certain; the responsibility for what has been commanded lies with the one giving the command rather than the one who carries it out. (40) However, duty is so circumscribed that there is never any room to venture that which rests wholly in one’s own responsibility, the action that alone strikes at the very core of evil and can overcome
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