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At a time when much of the world was either enticed with or entrapped by fascism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer dared to live the morally responsible Christian life to its most expressive, and tragic, end. As a theologically rooted opponent to National Socialism, and later as a member of the political resistance against Nazism, Bonhoeffer was recognized as a leader even by his enemies and was hanged by the...

this position of a “church” that led the way for all else, it was difficult to imagine how avant-garde these statements about the church as the source of theology and ethics sounded in 1932. Here, beside the identity (not identification) of Christ and church (“Christ existing as church-community”), Bonhoeffer formulated its counterpart. In a way they would never forget he impressed on his students that this “church” always meant the actual church in a specific place—in this case within the Old Prussian
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