In a tired and decadent world where such beliefs had become fatally attenuated, or where they had devolved to pro forma exercises in religious tradition, Bonhoeffer believed them utterly. And he saw that the failure on the part of the German church to believe these things made the way for the river of blood that was National Socialism. So as a result of what Bonhoeffer saw and others didn’t, he was a prophet in his time and is a prophet in ours too. Few in his day could hear what he had to say. Can we?
