In Germany between 1933 and 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, and a company of pastors and theologians drew together under the Barmen Declaration to refuse the Nazi captivity of their church. At the underground seminary Bonhoeffer led at Finkenwalde, a form of common life took shape that would later become his books Life Together and Discipleship.
“The third possibility is not just to bind up the wounds of the victims beneath the wheel but to throw oneself between the spokes of the wheel.”
— DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
