[October 2000 journal entry]
I see Bonhoeffer in the prison letters pressing for intellectual consistency. I do too. However, in his day as well as today, a (disturbingly, to me) large number of individuals – certainly in the United States, but perhaps to a lesser degree in England/Western Europe – seem content to shift back and forth between two mutually exclusive worldviews – i.e., modern and pre-modern. I think of this inconsistency when I read in the prison letters Bonhoeffer’s objections to ‘compartmentalization’.
I see Bonhoeffer in the prison letters pressing for intellectual consistency. I do too. However, in his day as well as today, a (disturbingly, to me) large number of individuals – certainly in the United States, but perhaps to a lesser degree in England/Western Europe – seem content to shift back and forth between two mutually exclusive worldviews – i.e., modern and pre-modern. I think of this inconsistency when I read in the prison letters Bonhoeffer’s objections to ‘compartmentalization’.
