For at the same time that Hitler was drawing Germany’s gaze toward a city shining with promise and away from a figure caricatured as grotesque and revolting, Bonhoeffer was noting that faith demands a turn in the exactly opposite direction—from Munich to the Jew. There are significant ramifications for public witness here as well. The God-man’s approach to identification and division reveals how the church itself may be called to show itself to the world. “With the humiliated Christ,” Bonhoeffer writes, “his church must also be humiliated.”54
