Bonhoeffer
On this day, 9 April 1945, in a German concentration camp, the great German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered, hanged naked alongside comrades with whom he had conspired to kill Adolf Hitler.
All these issues of "faith" and "belief". Your author has often been accused of reducing his ideas about theology and philosophy to "ethics." If, by the latter, one means action which is kind to people, and doesn't harm them, "GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!"
This post will undoubtedly be revised and expanded, for DB has meant much in the life of your author, and the latter is still sorting it all out, which is what we should all be doing all of the time. ["The unexamined life is not worth living."] [Of course, all life is worth living, because change and growth is always possible.]
Perhaps your author's favourite passage from DB: "There is hardly anything that can make one happier than to feel than one counts for something with other people. ... People are more important than anything else in life." [DB wrote this in a Berlin prison, while awaiting execution.]
Peace.
All these issues of "faith" and "belief". Your author has often been accused of reducing his ideas about theology and philosophy to "ethics." If, by the latter, one means action which is kind to people, and doesn't harm them, "GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!"
This post will undoubtedly be revised and expanded, for DB has meant much in the life of your author, and the latter is still sorting it all out, which is what we should all be doing all of the time. ["The unexamined life is not worth living."] [Of course, all life is worth living, because change and growth is always possible.]
Perhaps your author's favourite passage from DB: "There is hardly anything that can make one happier than to feel than one counts for something with other people. ... People are more important than anything else in life." [DB wrote this in a Berlin prison, while awaiting execution.]
Peace.
posted by HH at 8:10 AM
2 Comments:
I knew about this plot to kill Hitler, and that those who had hoped to accomplish the task were killed; of course I'd heard Bonhoeffer's name included there - but I had no real understanding of him as the great humanitarian (or humanist?) soul he was. Thank you for keeping his memory alive - he remained on the higher plane of his convictions to the end...
Did someone say "entropy"?
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