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Christ and the World

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Christ and the World
19.99 €
For the first time in Russian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's articles and papers are presented, reflecting the development of his ethical views from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s. Here, the reader will be able to trace the young theologian's path from the justification of war as a "historical necessity" embedded by God in the laws by which a nation develops, to his active pacifism and sacrificial call to put spokes in the wheels of the state machine when it runs over human bones. Through the selection of texts and the historical and biographical commentary, the author emerges as a thoughtful, changing figure, making decisions through hardship—in full accordance with his teaching that a Christian cannot rely on universal principles that are relevant everywhere and always. He can rely only on the living God, whom he encounters at every moment of his life, and on his own choices, made in freedom and responsibility before God and his neighbor. Thus began the path of following Christ, and here we see in practice, sometimes in groping, in response to events and in responsibility for one’s decisions, those motives that would become key for the mature Bonhoeffer in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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