{"id":73363,"date":"2026-07-03T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=73363"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:47:23","slug":"the-eye-the-ears-the-heart-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-eye-the-ears-the-heart-of-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye, the Ears, the Heart of Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian and member of the resistance during the Nazi era, devoted much of his work to the study of human community. In his book <em>Life Together<\/em>,<span id='easy-footnote-1-73363' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-eye-the-ears-the-heart-of-community\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-73363' title='Dietrich Bonhoeffer, &lt;em&gt;Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community, &lt;\/em&gt;HarperOne, 1978.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> he offers three principles to live by within a community: 1) We should not idealize human community. Rather, we should accept that its members are imperfect and it is divine grace that blesses the community. We should accept others as God accepts them. Through the gentle way we see one another, the divine is present. 2) \u201cThe first service we owe to another in the community is to listen to them\u201d\u2014to have an open ear for others. 3) Bonhoeffer\u2019s third point concerns the heart: \u201cA Christian community lives from the intercession of its members for one another.\u201d Thus, it is the eye, the ear, and the heart that we give to one another that makes it possible for a community to live and for heaven to spread out over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Image <\/strong>Dietrich Bonhoeffer with confirmation students, March 21, 1932, in Friedrichsbrunn; Source: Federal Archives, Image 183-R0211-316\/CC-BY-SA 3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian and member of the resistance during the Nazi era, devoted much of his work to the study of human community. In his book Life Together, he offers three principles to live by within a community: 1) We should not idealize human community. Rather, we should accept that its members are imperfect and it is divine grace that blesses the community. We should accept others as God accepts them. Through the gentle way we see one another, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":73019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796],"tags":[11813,11818,8819],"class_list":["post-73363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-ausgabe-24-2026-en","tag-english-issue-29-30-2026","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73372,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73363\/revisions\/73372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}