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« I'm Back | Main | On the Second Day of Christmas » December 25, 2006
Christmas Reflection by Bonhoeffer
My good friend, Rev. Dr. Bob Smith read me a quote from Bonhoeffer this week, embedded in a book on Bonhoeffer that he was reading. I've saved it for today to share with you as Bob shared it with me. Bonhoeffer's elegance is matched only by his truthfulness. Merry Christmas! "Without the holy night there is no theology. 'God revealed in the flesh,' the God-man Jesus Christ, is the holy mystery which theology is appointed to guard. What a mistake to think that it is the task of theology to unravel God's mystery, to bring it down to the flat ordinary human wisdom of experience and reason! It is the task of theology solely to preserve God's wonder as wonder; to understand, to defend, to glory God's mystery as mystery. This and nothing else was the intention of the ancient church when it fought with unflagging zeal over the mystery of the persons of the Trinity and the natures of Jesus Christ." (from A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ed. Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson (San Francisco: Harper, 1990), p. 472. Posted by johnwright at December 25, 2006 6:55 PM Comments
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