Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bonhoeffer

Formed by Christ

Christ remains the only one who forms. Christian people do not form the world with their ideas. Rather, Christ forms human beings to a form the same as Christ's own. However, just as the form of Christ is misperceived where he is understood essentially as the teaher of a pious and good life, so formation of human beings is also wrongly understood where one see it only as a guidance for a pious and good life.

The real human being is the object of the love of God....To be conformed with the one who became human means that we may be the human beings that we really are.

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