it? Here, too, is a necessary fragment of life—“but I will you your life as a prize of war.”16 However, thanks to Eberhard Bethge’s great biography of Bonhoeffer, we know the main outlines of Bonhoeffer’s life. Bethge’s biography makes it impossible to treat Bonhoeffer’s theology apart from his life. Therefore I must give some brief overview of his life no matter how inadequate. I have chosen, however, to highlight those aspects of Bonhoeffer’s life that suggest his passion for the church. Yet I
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