Sublime

Aren’t righteousness and the Kingdom of God on earth the focus of everything, and isn’t it true that Rom. 3.24ff. is not an individualistic doctrine of salvation, but the culmination of the view that God alone is righteous? It is not with the beyond that we are concerned, but with this world as created and preserved, subjected to laws, reconciled,

Bonhoeffer asserts that something is fundamentally lost when the congregation evades a conception of persons. To see this again through Rosa, personhood is often obscured in the acceleration of modernity,27 where the present is compressed, the future and its newness are our aim, resources are our obsession, and dynamic stabilization is our hope.

The liberation of the poor from the vicious circle of poverty is different in form from the liberation of the rich from the vicious circle of riches, although both vicious circles are interlinked.

a "low" ecclesiology, a mere individualism with saved individuals getting together from time to time for mutual benefit, were to turn out to be a denial of some of the key elements of Paul's missionary theology?

demythologization of the Bible, the secularizing

But the pastor can, as a primary element of his vocation, help his people be open to God arriving, even in his immanent frame.

Change indeed is one’s only hope if one is not the best to begin with, but a mere creature and then