Bonhoeffer book

I just finished a book on Bonhoeffer, titled, interestingly enough, Bonhoeffer. Stephen Plant, of Cambridge. Wonder if Dr Steinke studied with him? Excellent work, focusing on his academic writings, and asking the right questions. Best chapter: the one focusing on the works that influenced him, including the Luther Bible, Kant's philosophical works, Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, and (amazingly enough) Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Nietzsche.

Apparently Nietzsche has references in the Ethics, which I plan to buy in the spring when Fortress publishes the new translation of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. I also am going to get Creation and Fall.Bonhoeffer's critique: the idea of ethics as how can I do good? and how can I avoid evil? is an after the fall question. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the problem to begin with. Simple obedience to the will of God, a "childlike" state, is a theme in Act and Being, Discipleship, and Life Together, vs. the agonizing over good and evil that ethicists do. For Bonhoeffer, the serpent's question, "Did God really say?" is the pitfall of theological ethics.