Bonhoeffer’s “Preachers’ Seminary” Was Different.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the director of the “Preachers ‘ Seminary” at Finkenwalde was different from other seminaries…

What distinguished Bonhoeffer’s seminary from others was the style of its vita communis, which gave rise to a great deal of comment. Bonhoeffer himself practised and required of the others a daily half-hour of silence and meditation on the Scriptures. He succeeded in restoring the long-forgotten practice of personal confession. “Spiritual exercises” and meditation were, however, so unusual that there were soon accusations of “monasticism” and “legalism” (Eberhard Bethge, Costly Grace, 84).

Certainly, there is nothing wrong or legalistic an being silent before a Holy God and speanding time meditaing on His Word.