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If we assume a Lutheran account of justification as well as the distinction between law and gospel as presented in Chapter 2, the resulting image of God’s activity in the world is a coordinated, twofold action of preservation and redemption. This means we need to add to Chapter 1’s three-act story (creation, fall, redemption) a fourth act: preservation. The theological category of preservation is, for Bonhoeffer, the theological category under which to locate political activity. As this chapter shows, the orientation of Bonhoeffer’s political thought toward preservation distinguishes it from the alternative theo-political visions that he calls “compromise” and “radicalism.” And the main concepts of Bonhoeffer’s political thinking—the two kingdoms and the orders or estates—are ones that structure political life in its preservation toward redemption. |
