The unreservedness of life together makes one person open to another; in the conflict between determination for truth with all of its consequences and the will for community, the latter prevails. This is characteristic of all American thought, particularly as I have observed it in theology and the church; they do not see the radical claim of truth on the shaping of their lives. Community is therefore founded less on truth than on the spirit of “fairness”.
Diedrich Bonhoeffer 1930, as quoted by Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, page 104
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