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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...

(601) From the moment in our lives in which we become capable of speech, we are taught that our words must be true. What does this mean? What does “telling the truth” mean? Who requires this of us? (602) It is clear that initially it is our parents who order our relationship with them by demanding truthfulness;3 and accordingly this demand is also related and limited initially—in the sense our parents intend it—to this closest circle of the family. We note further that the relationship expressed
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