Mar

Where Will We Find God?

Posted by Steve Published in Quotable, Theology

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“If it is I who say where God will be, I will always find there a God who… corresponds to me, is agreeable to me…. But if it is God who says where he will be,… the place is the cross of Christ.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the Word, p. 45.

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soaring eagle said in March 15th, 2010 at 8:19 am

HI STEVE, JUST FOUND YOUR BLOG. YOU AHVE QUITE A FAMILY. GOD BLESS !! DOUG S

Tim said in March 15th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

Steve-

Great quote by Bonhoeffer on your blog…

Having never read any of his works, what would by a good first book to read by Bonhoeffer?

Steve said in March 15th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Hello Tim. Good question. The first book I read was “Letters and Papers from Prison.” Christoph von Dohnanyi, Bonhoeffer’s nephew, was, at that time of my reading, the conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and each year to commemorate his uncle’s execution he would host a Bonhoeffer concert which included readings from his late uncle interspersed with symphonic music. Really amazing. Anyway, Dohnanyi was interviewed in the local paper and the reporter mentioned the book which contained a few letters from a teenage Dohnanyi to his imprisoned uncle. I was intrigued, I read the book.
Two other Bonheoffer classics are “The Cost of Discipleship” (320 pages) and “Life Together” (128 [pages) .
I’d read all three.

margie said in March 15th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

Thanks, Steve. As a Christian by faith, Jew by birth, classical musician by training and history lover this is fascinating. I had never heard that Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer were related. And I lived in Ohio for 23 years!