Finkenwalde in Pomerania. There Bonhoeffer was able to present his thoughts more fully on following Jesus Christ in the paths of Christian discipleship. Bonhoeffer’s biographer and best friend, Eberhard Bethge, called Bonhoeffer’s reflections on the Sermon on the Mount the “nerve center” of the seminary and the book that ensued, “Finkenwalde’s own badge of distinction.”2 In those lectures he opened to his seminarians the personal heart of his own spirituality: discipleship and the cross, living out