What is commonly said [about Bonhoeffer the conspirator] . . . would “be just as possible, if Christ had never become incarnate, died, ascended to heaven, and sent His Spirit.” . . . In a theological and ecclesiastical climate . . . where any literal application of the Gospel is suspect of “Schwärmertum” and where only the ex-pacifist is respectable, it will take some time and not a little humility to admit, especially for those trained in the school of the great Reformers, that at this point in question the Mennonite minority has been, and still is right: “not because nonresistance works, but
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