?If the earth was made worthy to bear the man Jesus Christ, if a man like Jesus lived, then and only then is there any meaning in life for human beings= (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August 1944). The decisive response to the world crises of his time & fascism, world war and Shoah & lay for Bonhoeffer not in private religiosity or service for the church, but in a reformulation of the speech of Jesus Christ as the ground of all ?reality= and as ?God in human form=. We live today in a Christ-forgetful culture. Is the speech of Jesus Christ not also becoming formulaic in the churches? What inspirations does Bonhoeffer=s speech about Jesus Christ offer us & not only for the church or for Christians, but for alert and thoughtful contemporaries? The minister and Bonhoeffer expert Bernd Vogel presents these in this volume.