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Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Third Sunday after Trinity, June 12, 1932.
Bonhoeffer preached on this occasion at the request of his friend Gerhard Jacobi. Jacobi was pastor of a church that was destroyed in the bombing of Berlin and is well-known today for having been rebuilt after World War II amid the ruins of the original church. Many of Bonhoeffer's students would have attended the service, but he was also concerned about the members of the congregation who were not studying theology. How could he make this strange text from the apostle Paul about the mystery of the resurrection-a text he had chosen himself-meaningful to all listeners?