Friday, March 19, 2010

A ‘non-religious’ view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- #205

[August 2004 journal entry]

I have for many years pondered what Dietrich’s assigning ‘unparalleled (incomparable) value’ to seeing ‘from below’ would have meant for his direction/decisions had he survived the war and remained true to his ‘unparalleled (incomparable) value’ assessment. I have for many years pondered the fact that the author of Ecclesiastes did not have Koheleth go as far as Dietrich in assigning value to his seeing ‘life under the sun’. The author of the ‘scrapheap’ Job section to the story/play Job stopped short as well.