I find no salvation in my life history, but only in the history of Jesus Christ. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I shall die, and the fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead is the sole ground of my hope that I, too, shall be raised on the Last Day. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today. It was based on what he was trying to accomplish at Finkenwalde and on his understanding of the crucial concept of the church and what the church is.Įarly in the book, he writes, “It is not in our life that God’s help and presence must still be proved, but rather God’s presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It was during that month that he wrote Life Together. He spent the month of September 1938 at his parents’ home.
Bonhoeffer continued his work among the seminarians and the recently graduated pastorates by visiting them throughout Pomerania and privately tutoring them. You might recall that the underground seminary in Finkenwalde was shut down November 30, 1937. Previously, we looked at the context for the classic text Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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