Dietrich Bonhoeffer Situation Ethics
Telling a lie is still a lie even if it is a last resort.
Dietrich bonhoeffer situation ethics. Bonhoeffer is deeply critical. God has become fully human in jesus christ. 1 bonhoeffer worked on the book in the early 1940s 2 and intended it to be his magnum opus.
He was working for abwehr nazi germany s military intelligence organization but was simultaneously. In the 60s a small handful of american scholars garnered a great deal of media attention by building a not so sturdy structure of ideas called situational ethics on bonhoeffer s foundation. Thus he has experienced humanness in his own god human nature.
3 at the time of writing he was a double agent. Dietrich bonhoeffer was a postmodern theologian posted in introduction to bonhoeffer tagged christian life ethics good and evil goodness. Dietrich bonhoeffer s ethics focuses on the relationship between god and humanity.
On the other hand fletcher s interpretation is completely wrong. Most american readers of bonhoeffer have struggled with such an idea. Ethik is an unfinished book by dietrich bonhoeffer that was edited and published after his death by eberhard bethge in 1949.