TOPIC INDEXPractical Theology (5)
  1. Bonhoeffer was in the unenviable position of trying to break a spell. The spell was the Nazi crisis, where the totalitarian state threatened the church, and yet to many, seemed to be saving the culture and nation from mortal dangers.
  2. Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.
  3. We have seen a vision better than an angel. We have seen God on the cross. A God who is willing to suffer for us.
  4. King has some kind of belief in God, but was probably under no inner compulsion to do anything we would term evangelism.
  5. As with many teachings, the Lutheran teaching on Mutual Conversation and Consolation of the Brethren fits in with other teachings. The various teachings don’t stand alone, but they fit together as an organic whole.