Bonhoeffer wants to make it clear: “Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to [the original disciples as portrayed in the Gospels]” (202). In other words, “the synoptic Christ is neither more nor less distant from us than the Christ of Paul,” says Bonhoeffer. “The Christ who is present with us is the Christ to whom the whole of scripture testifies. He is the incarnate, crucified, risen, and glorified Christ; and he encounters us in his word” (206).
