The Plumb Line of Finkenwalde
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an underground seminary at Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich Church had made its...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Amos 7:7-17.
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an underground seminary at Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich Church had made its peace with Hitler, draping swastikas alongside crosses and rewriting theology to suit the regime. Most clergy went along quietly. Bonhoeffer refused. He held Scripture as a plumb line against the crooked walls of German Christianity and declared them dangerously out of true.…
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