Abstract
Even if religion is not in itself a concept intrinsic to Christian doctrine, dogmatics need to develop its understanding of religion. Interpretating both early and late writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45), the article takes us to the different understandings of religion to be found in Bonhoeffer. It focuses on the relation between religion and (the dogmatic notion of) sin in Bonhoeffer's thinking. In this very relation one finds the motives behind Bonhoeffer's wellknown criticism of religion. But surprisingly Bonhoeffer's hamartiological approach to religion also leads him to a positive understanding of religion which has escaped the attention of most Bonhoeffer scholarship. This positive understanding of religion is finally developed further by the article which shows how Bonhoeffer also connects religion and (the dogmatic notion of) man's God-likeness.
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