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Creation and Fall originated in lectures given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932–1933 during the demise of the Weimar Republic and the birth of the Third Reich. In the course of these events, Bonhoeffer called his students to focus their attention on the word of God—the word of truth in a time of turmoil.

of freedom, it itself is not free but conditioned. Only that which is itself free would not be dead, would not, as a creature, be alien or torn away. Only in that which is itself free could the free Creator behold the Creator.[4] But how can what is created be free? What is created is determined, bound by law,[5] conditioned, not free. If the Creator wishes to create the Creator’s own image, then the Creator must create it free. And only such an image, in its freedom, would fully praise[6] God, would
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