sentences:  “Schlatter provided a perspective on ‘the world’ which later sustained Bonhoeffer's theology of the world.Schlatter also conveyed a sense of the ‘authority’ of Scripture which diverged significantly from the prevailing liberal-Protestant view of the Bible as a ‘source-book for religious ideas’ to be found not in but behind the text ... one must recognise it also in Bonhoeffer's later life, where it appears at the heart of his faith that results from having been captivated and convinced by the word of Jesus ... it was the Reformed professor of New Testament who implanted it in the young student to the extent that it became an essential part of Bonhoeffer's epistemology and, finally, of his whole theological existence.Indeed, it was Schlatter's approach to the Scriptures which ... shaped Bonhoeffer's critique of Bultmann's programme of ‘demythologisation’ in his prison letters” p. 52.