Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visionary Dreaming

Whatever my reason for starting the book i was entirely unprepared for four words on page 27.

Dietrich bonhoeffer visionary dreaming. As bonhoeffer wrote he who loves his dream of a community more than the christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by god by others and by himself. It makes the dreamer proud and pretensions. Bonhoeffer believed our visionary dreaming leads to despair.

God hates visionary dreaming. The problem is that visionary dreaming is not a good phrase for what bonhoeffer intends to say. He enters the community of christians with his demands sets up his own laws and judges that brethren and god himself accordingly. Visionary dreaming dietrich bonhoeffer god hates visionary dreaming.

The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by god by others and by himself. The phrase lacks any definition of the central motive of the dream. God hates visionary dreaming emphasis added by cwc bonhoeffer continued. It makes the dreamer proud and pretentious.

It s entitled life together. Bonhoeffer wrote the book in german in the early 20th century and it was later translated into english. The phrase in english to me means reform for success.