Sublime

identity-involvement dilemma.

Faith, the church and theology must demonstrate what they really believe and hope about the man from Nazareth who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and what practical consequences they wish to draw from this.

demythologization of the Bible, the secularizing

He suffered on account of the liberating word of God, and died on account of his liberating fellowship with those who were not free.

A rejuvenation of Christianity when it has grown old and grey is only possible on the basis of its own origin, and becomes a dangerous and liberating reality when faith becomes aware of the incommensurability of the cross of Christ with the revelation of God, and realizing this, becomes aware too of its own strangeness and homelessness in its own C

A church which cannot change in order to exist for the humanity of man in changed circumstances becomes ossified and dies.

men to endure the plurality of different patterns of life and to use their differences for productive and fertile developments.

Solidarity with others in meaningful actions loses its creative character if one no longer wishes to be anything different from the others.