Bonhoeffer: A Comparative Analysis

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It is interesting how you have quoted Karl Barth in your writing, for recently I have been reading an exuberant biographical book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas entitled Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: a Righteous Gentile Vs. the Third Reich, which reveals that Karl Barth influenced the great theologian Bonhoeffer . Conversely, Bonhoeffer truthfully said, “… [I]n the Bible God speaks to us.” Therefore, since I believe that the Bible is God’s revelation, I believe in what Bonheoffer said when he said that in the Bible God speaks to

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