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• “What is worse than doing evil is being evil. It worse for a liar to tell the truth than of a lover of truth to lie.”

• “Jesus is not concerned with the proclamation and realization of new ethical ideals; He is not concerned with Himself being good (Matt. 19.17); He is concerned solely with love for the real man, and for that reason He is abel to enter into the fellowship of the guilt of men and to take the burden of their guilt upon Himself.”

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• Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.

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• Shame is man's ineffaceable recollection of his estrangement from the origin; it is grief for this estrangement, and the powerless longing to return to unity with the origin.

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• He knows himself now as something apart from God, outside God, and this means that he now knows only himself and no longer knows God at all; for he can know God only if he knows only God. The knowledge of good and evil is therefore separation from God. Only against God can man know good and evil.

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• The will of God is not a system of rules which is established from the outset; it is something new and different in each different situation in life, and for this reason a man must ever anew examine what the will of God may be.

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• He has become like God, but against God. Herein lies the serpent's deceit. Man knows good and evil, but because he is not the origin, because he acquires this knowledge only at the price of estrangement from the origin, the good and evil that he knows are not the good and evil of God but good and evil against God. They are good and evil of man's own choosing, in opposition to the eternal election of God. In becoming like God man has become a god against God.

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• He lives and acts not by the knowledge of good and evil but by the will of God. There is only one will of God. In it the origin is recovered; in it there is established the freedom and the simplicity of all action.

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• The voice of the heart is not to be confused with the will of God, nor is any kind of inspiration or any general principle, for the will of God discloses itself ever anew only to him who proves it ever anew.

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• In shame man is reminded of his disunion with God and with other men: conscience is the sign of man's disunion with himself.

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• Shame can be overcome only when the original unity is restored, when man is once again clothed by God in the other man, in the 'house which is from heaven,' the Temple of God (II Cor. 5.2ff.).

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• The situation is quite clear: knowing of Jesus a man can no longer know of his own goodness, and knowing of his own goodness he can no longer know of Jesus.

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• Germany
• Europe
• Prussia
• England
• Jesus Christ Himself

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1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author)

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• Dewey: 241

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Authors, A-Z › ( B ) › Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Theology › Ethics
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Theology › Pastoral Theology
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Theology › Moral Theology