To both these groups Bonhoeffer had nothing to say. He could not explain himself to them, but neither would he let their lazy theology dissuade him from what he believed God had called him to do. So he might have said, in the words of Whitman, “Do I contradict myself? Then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” He knew it would be useless to try and convince others of what he was doing, so he would play only to his Audience of One, trusting the results to Him.
