![]() ![]() It is written in the face of pressing, poisonous and pernicious evil. It is written in a timeless style that makes it readable alongside the Rule of St Benedict among the archetypes of Christian community but it is not a timeless rule. ![]() How to grow such solidarity? What habits of life and mind and community are required to make such unbreakable bonds? That is what Life Together is about. For Bonhoeffer, what the resistance had was the body of Christ – a securely interlocked chain, where weak and strong were unbreakably joined by the unity of Christ Jesus. And those who opposed the regime had to think carefully about the resources they had for resistance. In 1939 Germany was ruled by a regime that had no time for the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship. … Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. In a Christian community everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. ![]() ![]() “The most significant words in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together are these: Here’s an extract from Samuel Wells’ foreword: Last year, SCM Press published a new edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together ![]()
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