had recently passionately opposed.”[54] In his 1929 Barcelona lecture on ethics he was certainly no pacifist.[55] Between then and writing the 1936 letter he had made a friend of the French pacifist Jean Lasserre, a Reformed pastor, at Union Theological Seminary in 1930–31. In Lasserre he encountered the urgency of Jesus’ peace commandment, doubtless the result of the Reformed pastor’s seriousness about the Sermon on the Mount that was novel to Bonhoeffer. Bethge wrote of Bonhoeffer that “after meeting