More on Bonhoeffer

Jordan Ballor adds to the Bonhoeffer discussion over on the Touchstone blog this morning.

He writes:

“In response, I’ll point out that part of the academic critique is simply what academics are wont to do when looking at a popular book. There isn’t enough nuance here, this detail is wrong there, and so on. As I’ve said elsewhere, Metaxas’ biography is not a substitute for a scholarly biography like Eberhard Bethge’s. Still, it does show some surprising sensitivity for a popular biography. Metaxas rightly notes that Bonhoeffer was seeking to articulate a Protestant form of natural law in his Ethics, an aspect of Bonhoeffer’s work that has largely escaped the notice of academics. Perhaps you don’t get a modern political left/right dichotomy in scholarship all that often, but in Bonhoeffer’s case you do get a Barthian/liberal theology divide.”

You can read the rest here.