n. Bonhoeffer argues that moral decisions must somehow find a balance between these two extremes. Balanced individuals of this nature will lead to a balanced state.
Bonhoeffer also makes the argument that those who blindly obeyed the state in Nazi Germany had fallen into the moral trap of misreading LutherÆs notion of two kingdoms. Such a notion tends to instill the idea that earthly life encompasses two realms. Bonhoeffer (1995) argues that such a belief must necessarily become a choice of one realm or the other:
So long as Christ and the world are conceived as two opposing and mutually repellant spheres, man will be left in the following dilemma: he abandons reality as a whole, and places himself in one or other of the two spheres (p. 194).
The one realm is the spiritual and divine, while the other realm represents the worldly and profane. As such, the individual who adopts such an ethical valuation of existence tends to believe that human beings hold sway over the latter realm while God rules the former. The former realm i
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