A ‘non-religious’ view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- #77

[April 1999 journal entry]

Re Bonhoeffer’s 1939 decision to return to Germany, I think the following thoughts were pivotal for him as he made this decision –

1. that to be ‘Christian’ was to be ‘cultured’,
   
2. that to be ‘cultured’ was to stand face to face with one’s concrete situation,
   
3. that to be a ‘cultured Christian’ was for him to be in Germany.

Note that ‘Jesus’ did not escape danger and death by flight to Egypt or Rome.
Note that for Bonhoeffer to have sought safety would have discredited all he had said and would in safety have subsequently said. Question – would/should marriage and/or parenting alter such decisions?