His commandment permits man to live as man before God, in a world God made, with responsibility for the institutions of that world. On the contrary, God’s commandment is to be found and known in the Church, the family, labor, and government. This reality is not manifest in the Church as distinct from the secular world such a juxtaposition of two separate spheres, Bonhoeffer insists, is a denial of God’s having reconciled the whole world to himself in Christ. The root and ground of Christian ethics, the author says, is the reality of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Although the author died before completing his work, this book is recognized as a major contribution to Christian ethics.
Abjuring all thinking in terms of two spheresi.e., any dualistic separation of the church and the world, nature and grace, the sacred and the profanehe called for a unitive concrete ethic founded on Christology. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Other articles where Ethics is discussed: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Ethical and religious thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: were published posthumously (Ethik, 1949 Ethics). The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world.
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