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Theological Education at Finkenwalde: 1935–1937 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the spring of 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed in August 1937. The two years of Finkenwalde’s existence produced some of Bonhoeffer’s most significant theological work as he prepared these young seminarians for the turbulence and risk of parish...

asunder the spirits”5 for drawing the line between Life and death, between obedience and disobedience to our very Lord Jesus Christ. Our disruption from the Reich Church would be spurious and godless indeed if ours were not the same strong faith which Martin Luther’s once was: that we have to fight for the sake of the true Church of Christ against the false Church of the Antichrist. Fighting in this faith we derive no small power from considering the fact that we are fighting for Christianity not
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