the forgiveness of sins. This leaves us itching to ask Bonhoeffer: ‘But isn’t that making Christ a bit too human? How can he be met in the form of a human community and yet worshipped as God?’ Bonhoeffer’s reply would be, ‘That’s exactly what we have to look at again in the understanding of the person of Christ (Christology). Come to my lectures in Berlin 1933!’ These Christology lectures are in fact only available to us as reconstructed from students’ notes—and incomplete at that. Nor can it be
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