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Act and Being, written in 1929–1930 as Bonhoeffer’s second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the “heart turned in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor.” Here, therefore, we find Bonhoeffer’s thoughts...

of being, is brought into motion through the sociological category. Concepts of being, insofar as they are acquired from revelation, are always determined by the concepts of sin and grace, ‘Adam’ and Christ. There are in theology no ontological categories that are primarily based in creation and divorced from those latter concepts.[22] The idea of this ‘being’—of sin and of human beings in sin, of grace and of human beings in grace—is developed within the wider concreteness of the thought of the
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