{"id":39,"date":"2016-05-23T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-05-05T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:06:07","slug":"bonhoeffer-and-the-holier-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10060\/bonhoeffer-and-the-holier-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonhoeffer and the Holier Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer made mistakes, but he understood the value of grace and repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;Hitler began to demand allegiance from pastors in Germany, Bonhoeffer fled to&nbsp;the United States. Not long after his arrival, he realized his wrong decision and returned to Germany to participate in efforts&nbsp;to overthrow the evils of Nazism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six years later, Bonhoeffer was dead; tortured and hanged by the Nazis in a concentration camp for conspiracy to assassinate the F\u00fchrer.&nbsp;Bonhoeffer was only 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonhoeffer\u2019s life was short and seemingly unfulfilled, as is his list of published&nbsp;books. At the time of his execution, he had only published two books:&nbsp;<em>The Cost of Discipleship&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;Life Together.&nbsp;<\/em>His participation in the attempts to assassinate Hitler was a failure. Which&nbsp;begs&nbsp;the&nbsp;question: what more could Bonhoeffer have achieved as a Christian leader had he not left the safety of the United States for Nazi Germany in 1939?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>It is not a religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the secular life. That is metanoia [repentance]: not in the first place thinking about one\u2019s own needs, problems, sins, and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ\u2026 \u2019Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men have become greater than through all the joys of the world.\u2019 It must be so and I tell this to myself in my present position over and over again. The pain of longing, which often can be felt physically, must be there, and we shall not and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain, that is the one of joy in God.<\/p><cite>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Letters-Papers-Prison-Dietrich-Bonhoeffer\/dp\/0684838273\">Letters and Papers from Prison (21 November 1943)<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer made mistakes, but he understood the value of grace and repentance. When&nbsp;Hitler began to demand allegiance from pastors in Germany, Bonhoeffer fled to&nbsp;the United States. Not long after his arrival, he realized his wrong decision and returned to Germany to participate in efforts&nbsp;to overthrow the evils of Nazism. 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