"....in Rome, in the Eternal City , the city of Peter and Paul, he saw a vivid illustration of the church’s transcendence of race and national identity....
To think of the church as something universal would change everything and would set in motion the entire course of Bonhoeffer’s remaining life, because if the church was something that actually existed, then it existed not just in Germany or Rome, but beyond both. This glimpse of the church as something beyond the Lutheran Protestant Church of Germany, as a universal Christian community, was a revelation and an invitation to further thinking:.... "
~ Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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