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Pastoral leadership lessons from Bonhoeffer: The alt‐right, the twitter mob, and ressentiment
Author(s) -
Root Andrew
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12562
Subject(s) - resentment , politics , active listening , great rift , perception , sociology , psychoanalysis , criminology , political science , psychology , law , philosophy , epistemology , communication , physics , astronomy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's radio address “The Younger Generation's Altered Conception of the Führer ,” has much to teach us about what kind of pastoral leadership is needed in our present social and political contexts. Personal antipathies have blossomed into generational antinomies, and the resentments of one side versus another threaten to take over our perceptions of reality and perhaps even reality itself. In looking at Bonhoeffer's diagnosis of why the “younger generation” was seeking a strong‐man leader to help them demolish the adversaries who had aggrieved them, we can see ourselves. In listening to Bonhoeffer's cure, we may find our own medicine.