 enbar says: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's famous 1934 sermon at Fanø, Denmark. Bonhoeffer was later hanged for conspiring to assassinate Hitler. "There is no way to peace along the way of safety.... Peace is the opposite of security." Peace on earth is not a problem, but a commandment given at Christ's coming. There are two ways of reacting to this command of God: the unconditional, blind obedience of action, or the hypocritical question of the serpent: "Yea, hath God said. . . ?" This question is the mortal enemy of obedience, and therefore the mortal enemy of all real peace. "Has God not said? Has God not understood human nature well enough to know that wars must occur in this world, like laws of nature? Must God not have meant that we should talk about peace, to be sure, but that it is not to be literally translated into action? Must God not really have said that we should work for peace, of course, but also mak... I'm not this deep; so here's my question: Was Bonhoeffer an amillennialist? Well, it depends what you mean. He wouldn't have called himself an amillenialist because those sorts of terms weren't generally used in German theological circles at that time. But he certainly was not a premillenialist -- mainly an American phenomenon until very recently -- and probably not much like the average postmillenialist either. I think it's fair to say that he spent very little time thinking about the eschatological future and most of his time thinking about how to live in the present. |
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