Ethics
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer's unfinished work written while conspiring against Hitler: responsibility, the penultimate and the ultimate, telling the truth. Demanding and essential for ethics under pressure.
Read it if…
you want Christian ethics forged in extremity.
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Skip it if…
start with The Cost of Discipleship.
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Three things you will actually use
- Responsibility means guilt accepted.
- Ethics is concrete.
- Truth-telling has a context.
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Read the section on responsible action.
Our verdict
Bonhoeffer's ethics.
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