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Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

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,
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