Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian, believed, too, that the idea of our own “righteous anger” is foreign to the Scriptures. In The Cost of Discipleship, he made it clear: “Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.”8
