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To: cripplecreek
Liberals still try to claim Bonhoeffer for their own but he was very conservative, was NOT a pacifist, hated liberal theology, and he was a Biblical strict constructionist.

He taught that we should not try to make the Bible “relevant” because its relevance is inherent.

4 posted on 04/09/2013 8:04:49 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24
Liberals still try to claim Bonhoeffer for their own but he was very conservative

Classifying Bonhoeffer in today's terms as a 'liberal' or a 'conservative' (politically) does not fit the man or honor the humanity of the man. He saw the humanity in all equally be they Jewish, or Black.

His time spent in NY, where he regularly attended church in Harlem, the fact he sought out Black Gospel records and took them with him back to Germany, shows that the man is not easily categorized. He honored the Bible, he honored God and in his short life, he honored humanity.

13 posted on 04/09/2013 8:34:17 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Correct. And he was in prison when the war was clearly lost, but Hitler put out a kill order on him and many others simply out of spite.


19 posted on 04/09/2013 9:05:54 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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