If I were to reflect, I would admit that I have now been in almost five years of "constant, silent discussion" with Barth.
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If I were to reflect, I would admit that I have now been in almost five years of "constant, silent discussion" with Barth.
Back in my university days I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship, and was moved by the thoughts and practicality of this theologian known primarily conspiring to kill Hitler. A few months ago, one of our friends described a brilliant new biography (by Eric Metaxas) he had just finished about this German Christian - so I decided to give it a whirl (biographies are a favorite genre of mine - I try to always be reading one). What I learned from this biographical work surprised me - here are some thoughts!