Dieter Zellweger

The Word in this World

Preaching & Worship

“The sermon from Bremen reminds me how I as a boy experienced the last sermons of my grandfather in the Basel prison: line by line he brought the biblical text anew to speech (to life in speech). Listen: whoever wants to preach in this way must at the same time stand just as awake and engaged in current events as this comes to expression in the Titanic sermon. In this way the two sermons make a suspenseful pair (maybe even a dialectic pair).”