Of course the ordinands already had the knowledge acquired from their university courses.
But many things were completely new to them, for example the daily practice of meditation. Every morning after breakfast they were asked to think reflectively, alone for half an hour, on a text from Luther’s Bible. each text was set for a whole week of daily meditation.
(Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, 181).
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February 21, 2012 at 12:13 am
Nathan
As I read about Pastor Bonhoeffer I gather that it was really not until he returned to Germany from his first visit to the US that church attendance, daily reading, meditation, and prayer became a part of his daily life. His first and second thesis seem to have been intellectual works. His youth forced him into pastoral (Barcelona) and post graduate work (the US visit); all forming him into a force to be reckoned with and not just another university lecturer.