While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.
Part three - Bonhoeffer confronts directly one of the most common of Christian apologetics: the idea of God as the stop gap (or "god of the gaps" as atheists often call it). Instead of defending God's existence from the negative, and arguing that God exists *beyond* knowledge and experience, he argues we must move God back to the center of life.
By Pastor Lars Hammar
