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“Then came the crisis of 1933.” This is Bonhoeffer’s own phrase in a letter that documents a turning point in his own life as well as that of the nation. Of Bonhoeffer’s own life at this time, his biographer writes, “The period of learning and roaming” from 1928 until 1931 “had come to an end” as the young lecturer, age 26, began to teach “on a faculty whose theology he did not share” and to...

not something eternally at rest within itself. Truth happens only in community[41] between two persons. ¶Christ as Word of God in the sense of word spoken to us does not mean Christ as timeless truth, but rather as truth breaking into a concrete moment, as God’s speaking to us. Thus Christ is not timelessly and universally accessible as an idea; instead, he is heard as Word only there where he allows himself to be heard. That means it is entirely within his freedom to reveal himself to me or to hide
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