A Man for Others?

There's nothing heretically liberal, or un"orthodox" or even humanistic about that phrase. It's not a "reinvention of Christ" or a rejection of His divinity.

I don't understand the problems many have when it comes to reading Bonhoeffer's early and later works. What was underlined, as it were, by Bonhoeffer throughout his life was the cross, the whole issue of "dying to self" and dying to more than self, without which it is impossible to understand "selflessness'. If you understand the underlining theme, the "underwater current", everything else is simple and straightforward and congruous.

What I love about reading certain books is their poetical flow, and their immense beauty of expression, especially when it comes to the cross.

I agree that Bonhoeffer grew in his beliefs, but can you really say that he completely changed his position from

"When Christ calls a man, He bid him come and die." (The Cost of Discipleship)

to

"The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity " (Letters from Prison)

There is a connection between the two. It is a definite progression, not a regression.