community formed. Though the theological training was rigorous and fully academic, there was still Bonhoeffer’s unique desire to offer serious reflection on how the life of faith is lived in concrete ways. In some ways the concerns that were academic for him in the ecclesiology he explored in Sanctorum Communio now had become living reality. How does the church that incarnates Jesus Christ take concrete form in the world? Bonhoeffer realized that with the events taking place around him theology must