[April 2003 journal entry]
I have pondered for some time how young Confessing Church pastors trained by Bonhoeffer at Finkenwalde would have conducted confirmation instruction for the youth in their congregations during the Nazi years. What would have been Bonhoeffer’s counsel if/when students asked for guidance? I suspect a spectrum existed among Confessing Church pastors – i.e., with an approach that would have blurred the distinctions with the confirmation experience of ‘German Christian’ youth at one end of the spectrum and with close/clear transposition of Cost of Discipleship instruction for Confessing Church youth at the opposite end of the spectrum.
