Comments on: Eric Metaxas Thinks He Saved Bonhoeffer from the Cultural Marxists

By: Lijdare

Lijdare — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:32:00 +0000

Once a zombie always a zombie.

By: mirele

mirele — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:33:00 +0000

Every time I see Eric Metaxas blathering on about Bonhoeffer, I want to smack him upside the head with Eberhard Bethge’s biography. It had its faults but man, Metaxas thinks too highly of himself.

By: DoctorDJ

DoctorDJ — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:41:58 +0000

In reply to Jeff Ryan. I find it unfathomable that anyone takes these three buffoons seriously.

By: Linn

Linn — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:37:20 +0000

Bonhoeffer speaks for himself. I read “Discipleship” shortly after receiving Christ at the age of 15. I learned early in my faith that my salvation came at a cost, and my response was to be total surrender. Bonhoeffer’s works and example have done much for my own spiritual formation, and no one needs to salvage him.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:09:58 +0000

The cultish devotion to the person of Trump is perhaps the most worrying aspect of the current political situation, and is, I think, unparalleled in recent US history. It is also unparalleled in other ‘western’ polities: Johnson might have won the UK election last month, but, while he is undeniably popular in some quarters, there just does not seem to be anything remotely like the same kind of (pseudo-)religious adulation. Indeed, Christian leaders, evangelical or otherwise, seem to have almost nothing to say about him at all. (It is worth noting that the UK political party that is perhaps the most inclined to political religiosity – the Democratic Unionist Party in N Ireland – is really not very keen on him, perhaps because the Johnson Brexit ‘deal’ effectively points to a situation where N Ireland becomes more economically ‘united’ with Ireland than with Great Britain.*)

*Under the circumstances, I’d say “fair enough” to that.