creative ego.… One knows oneself immediately by the act of the coming of the ego to itself.[58] Second, according to Bonhoeffer, idealism’s premises exhibit the sinfulness of the human being after the fall, as understood by Protestant theology. Fallen humanity “refers everything to itself, puts itself in the center of the world, does violence to reality, makes itself God, and God and the other person its creatures.”[59] In the “essential boundlessness of thinking, in its claim to be a closed system,