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French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—theologian, mystic, scientist—once noted, “I should like to die on the day of the Resurrection.” So it happened. He died of a heart attack in New York on April 10, 1955, Easter Sunday.
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An important interview with Elizabeth Johnson about her groundbreaking book. shar.es/amOFlq
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If POTUS, for instance, were to try to annex the Sudetenland that would obviously be crossing a red line into globalism.
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Not exactly--he wrote about "religionless Christianity," a way of talking about God in a secular language appropriate for a "world come of age." "God is beyond in our midst"--not just in some "religious" realm on the margins of life.
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On April 9, 1945, after conducting a prayer service for fellow prisoners in Flossenberg camp, #DietrichBonhoeffer received a summons: “Prisoner Bonhoeffer, get ready and come with us.” He replied, "This is the end, for me the beginning of life.” He was hanged that night.
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The path to his death at 39 was prefigured in his early work on "The Cost of Discipleship," where he wrote that the Cross "meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
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This end was also prefigured in his early recognition of the idolatrous and evil designs of Hitler's Third Reich. He helped form the Confessing Church to resist Hitler's efforts to co-opt Christianity in favor of a national cult of "German Christianity."
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Eventually he accepted a safe haven in New York's @UnionSeminary. But in 1939 he returned: “I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the tribulations of this time with my people.”
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Back in Germany he joined a secret conspiracy to overthrow Hitler: “The church’s task is not simply to bind the wounds of the victims beneath the wheel, but also to put a spoke in the wheel itself.”
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Although this violated his pacifist leanings, he came to believe: “The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.” With his fellow conspirators he was arrested in 1943.
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In prison he imagined a new perspective for the church—not from the center of power and status, but from “below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled—in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.”
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Bonhoeffer is the rare theologian whose biography is studied as carefully as his written work for clues about the challenge of faith in our time--in particular, the ethical dilemmas of responsible action in the face of injustice and tyranny.
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Sonnier was not an “innocent victim.” Yet his death lit a spark in Sr Helen, and thus inspired one of the most effective champions in the struggle to overcome state-sponsored murder.
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While making an important point in a staff meeting I’m lucky if one person is paying attention. @OrbisBooks
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I take this exhortation to heart. Grateful for an opportunity to practice the forgiveness I hope to receive for my own transgressions. I like to think that Sister just really wanted people to love the saints as much as we both do. May she Rest In Peace, in their company.
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