The πξρισσον [extraordinary] never merges into the το αυτο [merely personal]. That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The πξρισσον [extraordinary] never merges into the το αυτο [merely personal]. That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.

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About Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church.

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Alternative Names: Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoefer Dieter Bonhoeffer D. Bonhoeffer D. Bonhoefer Bonhoefer Dietrich BONHOEFFER Dietrich Bonhoffer Dietrich Bonhöffer Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoefer, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Dietrich Bonhöffer, Dietrich
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To be conformed with the one who became human means that we may be the human beings that we really are. Pretension, hypocrisy, compulsion, forcing oneself to be something different, better, more ideal than one is - all are abolished. God loves the real human being. God became a real human being.

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