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Summary Of The Bible Makes Sense By Bonhoeffer

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How does Bonhoeffer speak to the opposite extreme? That is, what does the call to Christian community mean to the introverted anti-social Christian? Can a person live just as much of a fulfilled life for the Kingdom through engrossing one’s self into theological study and writing to inspire the populace without actually interacting with humanity? We can see in the epistles of the Bible that often the apostles took this position when they were isolated in exile from the community, proving that one need not be in the physical presence of others in order to foster a sense of community. However, the isolation of the church is the death of it. As Walter Brueggemann says in his book The Bible Makes Sense, “The central life-death moment in the biblical
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