Overestimating the Power of Reason

In the baptismal letter to his newborn great-nephew, uncle Dietrich looks toward the world his namesake will inherit.  These paragraphs introduce a theme that is at the core of his Ethics, “responsibility,” and being prepared to take action. We have live too much in a world of ideas, and we thought it would be possible [...]

Bonhoeffer on God of the Gaps

Hello Wellspring friends.  I’ve been busy teaching my regular classes, but here is another Bonhoeffer selection.   I wrote a little more on the background of this letter elsewhere. In a letter to his friend Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer mentions his prison reading and his thoughts on where God fits into the modern scientific world view.  [...]