As he sat in prison, Bonhoeffer asked important questions about what the war and its aftermath would mean for Christianity. Belief in God had provided justification for World War I, and the result was catastrophic as Christians violently tore each other apart. Sitting in prison, Bonhoeffer had no such illusions about this war. Hitler had co-opted the institutional churches in Germany, but religion was not used as justification for war in the same way. The question for Bonhoeffer: How do we talk about God after the “death of God”?
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