““Everything in the prior chapters has been leading us up to this point. Our look at his christology (chap. 2) and ecclesiology (chap. 3) laid the foundation for it. Our discussion of Scripture and reading and living God’s Word (chap. 4), our discussion of prayer (chap. 5), and our discussion of thinking and living theologically (chap. 6) all explained the particular means by which we learn and practice it. Our most recent discussions of being “worldly” (chap. 7) and of freedom and service and sacrifice (chap. 8) were looking at manifestations of it. Now, what remains is to travel to the peak itself, to see Bonhoeffer’s views on love and his life of love.””
