Bonhoeffer on abortion
Matthew Schmitz quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, emphasizing how the theologian is forcefully pro-life, while also speaking pastorally about those who commit this sin. Destruction of the...
View ArticleBonhoeffer on Christmas
Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed for plotting against Hitler, is in vogue today. Much of what people are so excited about in his writings is simply Lutheran spirituality....
View ArticleFrom “Sologamy” to Marriage as Vocation
Jim Priest, a family columnist for the Daily Oklahoman, discussed “sologamy,” the growing practice of marrying oneself. A woman or a man (usually a woman) who has decided to remain single dresses up...
View Article“God Hates Visionary Dreaming”
You’ve got to read Chase Replogle’s article in Christianity Today entitled Bonhoeffer Convinced Me to Abandon My Dream. He tells about “leadership” classes in seminary, encouraging him to develop his...
View ArticleThe African Bonhoeffer
John Ehrett, seeing the problems with the dominant political theologies, sees a way forward in the thought of the martyred Lutheran theologian from Ethiopia, Gudina Tumsa.
View ArticleBonhoeffer on Abortion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a Lutheran theologian who is widely respected from all sides. So his position on abortion deserves to be known and considered.
View ArticleBonhoeffer’s Theology of the Body
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's opposition to abortion is in the context of his theology of the body.
View ArticleDISCUSS: Bonhoeffer vs. the Benedict Option
"Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. The Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
View ArticleVocation vs. Idolatry
What Bonhoeffer says about vocation of the leader, the leader's temptation to become "the ultimate authority of the led"--that is, an idol--and the temptation of the led to treat the leader in this way...
View ArticleThe Conservative and Christian Resistance to Hitler
My review of "White Knights in the Black Orchestra" by Tom Dunkel, which tells of the anti-Nazi resistance that led to the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The conspiracy had a greater scope, reach,...
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