I’ve spent the last week doing all my bookreading in Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, by Eberhard Bethge, since last Friday when I bought it at Border’s (with a 30% coupon). I’ve read about 200 pages, and I’m now at the sopt where he has returned from America, has met Barth and had many conversations with him and continued correspondence, and is now getting involved in the ecumenical movement, and starting to talk of peace in a very “non-compromising” way. In fact, Bonhoeffer joined the World Alliance, despite his thrological misgivings and concerns about the group which Bethge describes as “the group most dominated by the spirit of liberal and humanist Anglo-Saxon theology”, becuase “with its emphasis on peace work, it was laso the group most committed to doing something”

He quotes Bonhoeffer :

But, notwithstnading all criticism, it is plain that the World Alliance…is doing work the urgency of which must set everyone’s conscience alight, and so far as we know there is no other way of doing it better or more quickly

from p.194, source from Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, Volume 11:129