?If the earth was made worthy to bear the man Jesus Christ, if a man like Jesus lived, then and only then is there any meaning in life for human beings= (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August 1944). The decisive response to the world crises of his time & fascism, world war and Shoah & lay for Bonhoeffer not in private religiosity or service for the church, but in a reformulation of the speech of Jesus Christ as the ground of all ?reality= and as ?God in human form=. We live today in a Christ-forgetful culture. Is the speech of Jesus Christ not also becoming formulaic in the churches? What inspirations does Bonhoeffer=s speech about Jesus Christ offer us & not only for the church or for Christians, but for alert and thoughtful contemporaries? The minister and Bonhoeffer expert Bernd Vogel presents these in this volume.

?If the earth was made worthy to bear the man Jesus Christ, if a man like Jesus lived, then and only then is there any meaning in life for human beings= (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August 1944). The decisive response to the world crises of his time & fascism, world war and Shoah & lay for Bonhoeffer not in private religiosity or service for the church, but in a reformulation of the speech of Jesus Christ as the ground of all ?reality= and as ?God in human form=. We live today in a Christ-forgetful culture. Is the speech of Jesus Christ not also becoming formulaic in the churches? What inspirations does Bonhoeffer=s speech about Jesus Christ offer us & not only for the church or for Christians, but for alert and thoughtful contemporaries? The minister and Bonhoeffer expert Bernd Vogel presents these in this volume.

?If the earth was made worthy to bear the man Jesus Christ, if a man like Jesus lived, then and only then is there any meaning in life for human beings= (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August 1944). The decisive response to the world crises of his time & fascism, world war and Shoah & lay for Bonhoeffer not in private religiosity or service for the church, but in a reformulation of the speech of Jesus Christ as the ground of all ?reality= and as ?God in human form=. We live today in a Christ-forgetful culture. Is the speech of Jesus Christ not also becoming formulaic in the churches? What inspirations does Bonhoeffer=s speech about Jesus Christ offer us & not only for the church or for Christians, but for alert and thoughtful contemporaries? The minister and Bonhoeffer expert Bernd Vogel presents these in this volume.