Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 12: Getting Caught up in the Way of Jesus

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 twelve - Finally getting to some examples of what it looks like to be Christian in a godless world, we are called to get caught up in Jesus’ way.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 11: Living in a Godless World

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 11 - What is the difference between the Christian life and the pagan life? It isn't getting things from the gods, or turning to them for favors. It's that the Christian suffers with the God who grieves with us.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 10: The Working Hypothesis

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 ten - In the boldest terms yet used, Bonhoeffer says that people must learn to manage our lives without God, and not expect God's actions, yet know that it is before that weak God who demands us live without him that we stand.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 9: Emergency Exits

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 nine - As science and secularism continue to make people content to live their daily lives without any reference to God, Christian theologians have been trying to find space for God in things beyond people's lives, or in trying to create angst about sin and death in order to provide a cure for. But Bonhoeffer notes that these "emergency exits" have failed to make inroads, and dishonest to the Gospel.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 8: Re-imagining Redemption

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 eight - After deconstructing the popular idea of "redemption"in Christianity, Bonhoeffer begins to re-imagine what the word might mean in a world where people no longer believe in a literal hell with an eternal punishment that they need to be rescued from.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 7: On Redemption

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 seven - Christian theologians have emphacized redemption as a rescuing from this world to the next, but, Bonhoeffer argues, that goes against the Old Testament, and ultimately Jesus. The Christian has no escape from earthly difficulties.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 6: On keeping people in immature faith

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 six - Philosophers, psychologists, and unscrupulous pastors try to create anxiety and worry in happy people's lives in order to induce them to need them, equating faith with an immature stage of personal development.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 5: On Secularity and Science

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 five - Bonhoeffer reflects on how the secular world no longer operates with God as part of the equation, and people no longer turn to the question of God when dealing with problems.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 4: Desire and Loyalty

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 four - A short look at his reflections on missing his fiance, Maria, coping with not seeing her, and debating the selfishness of allowing himself to not think of her to avoid the pain of missing her.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 3: God as the Stop Gap

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 2: On Speaking of God

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 two - a discussion about how one is to speak of God in non-religious terms, and how Bonhoeffer has become more hesitant to talk religious jargon with religious people, and how he finds God in the center of our world, not in the space beyond human knowledge.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 1

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. By Pastor Lars Hammar

Episode 1: introduction to the Bonhoeffer and his time in prison, his theology and worldview.