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Reading Bonhoeffer: A Guide to His Spiritual Classics and Selected Writings on Peace is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dorothee Soelle once wrote, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the one German theologian who will lead us into the third millennium.” As we near the end of the first decade of this third millennium, Bonhoeffer continues to inspire new generations as a spiritual guide for their actions on behalf of peace and social justice. This book by Geffrey Kelly provides a critical analysis and reading guide to two of...

not be easy. He has no set place to lay his head. Nor would the would-be follower qualify who would first bury his father according to the law. The issue in that case is to prefer obedience to the law to the call of Jesus. Here Bonhoeffer comments that nothing, not even the law, should come between Jesus and the disciple. One suspects that Bonhoeffer is alluding to the conflict so prevalent in the Nazi era that following Jesus Christ could very well entail violating laws that the gospel would oppose.
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