ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00988.x THE BROTHERS BONHOEFFER ON SCIENCE, MORALITY, AND THEOLOGY Rasmussen Larry 02 03 2009 44 1 10.1111/zygo.2009.44.issue-1 97 113 © 2009 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon

On one level this is a case study in science, religion, and morality, with special attention to the consequences for morality of science's embeddedness in society. On another level this is the science‐and‐theology dialogue between the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother Karl‐Friedrich, a physicist. The influence of Karl‐Friedrich and the brothers’ exchanges on Dietrich's prison theology receives special attention. Because this study is set in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, and Karl‐Friedrich's work intersected Germany's efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, the discussion leads to Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. The attention there is to the interplay of science, religion, and morality at the time the bomb was detonated at the Trinity site.

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