More on Bonhoeffer’s Lecture, “The Church and the Jewish Question”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in his lecture, “The Church and the Jewish Question” (1933)…

…also spoken about the possibility that the church, “not just bandage the victims under the wheel, but rather break the spokes of the wheel itself.”

Already the thought of political resistance rings out here, even if Bonhoeffer was still trying to act solely through his actions within the church.

At the same time, he attempted to obtain support from foreign countries through his ecumenical work.

(Renate Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life, 24).