Bonhoeffer's praise of solitude echoes Blaise Pascal, when he writes: The other chapters are devoted to the nature of Christian community, the need for silence and solitude, the role of ministry in community, and the need for confession and communion. Modern Christians may be put off by the depth of involvement Bonhoeffer expects from them, particularly in the chapter entitled "The Day with Others."
For that reason, Life Together includes strong opinions about how a community should do daily reading and prayer. Christians, in Bonhoeffer's world, meet together morning and night, before and after their workdays. In this book, Bonhoeffer explored the role of Christian community, which he imagines as a small, familial fellowship of believers. That biographical tidbit makes every one of his books more amazing his strong rhetoric is not simply hopeful.
As with his opposition to Fascism, Bonhoeffer lived out each one of his beliefs. "Reading Bonhoeffer is incredibly convicting." That was my friend's opinion when I mentioned this book, and he is absolutely right.īonhoeffer was the German pastor convicted, imprisoned, and executed for speaking out against Hitler and eventually scheming to assassinate him.
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