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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...

question of contemporizing is taken as the theme of theology, however, we can be sure that the substance has already been betrayed and sold away. We must be quite careful not to allow the struggle itself to impose false questions and false themes on us. The danger is very real. I need only recall the theological literature of the past two years—precisely from our own side!—(Althaus Deutsche Stunde der Kirche, Heim, even Schlatter neue deutsche Art in der Kirche!)21 to make this clear. The question
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