Many previous treatments of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hegel state the importance of their engagement but remain at the level of broad overview. For instance, studies by Jörg Rades and Charles Marsh offer promising interpretive frameworks but do not undertake detailed expositions. More recently, Wayne Floyd notes the need for further research into how Bonhoeffer's intellectual formation relates to the idealist legacy. In light of these representative studies, the present essay focuses on Bonhoeffer's relation to his predecessor in the span of a single work, while rendering Hegel's position on his own terms. It thus offers a contribution to the text-based, diachronic account of the two thinkers that remains to be written.