German Lutheran pastor and theologian who participated in the resistance to National Socialism and was executed by the Nazis, and whose prison writings developed the concept of religionless Christianity.
Religionless Christianity: modernity has come of age — humans no longer need religion as a crutch; Christianity must present God as the one who is with us in weakness, not a stop-gap for human ignorance. The cost of grace: cheap grace (forgiveness without discipleship) is the deadly enemy of the church. Ethics as concrete responsibility in specific situations.
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