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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...

And yet it is precisely this construction that the Confessing Church must destroy, for it veils the seriousness of the ecumenical problem and of the church itself in the broader sense. As true and biblical as the assertion may well be that truth exists only in unity,29 the assertion is equally true and biblical that unity is possible only in the truth.30 Where one church solely seeks unity with another, without consideration of or beyond the truth claim, truth itself is being denied and there the
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