RELIGIONLESS CHRISTIANITY

2/29/73

Legal Commission

Quote from Bonhoeffers "Letters and Papers from Prison"

Religionless Christianity

Barth didn't go far enough

the way history always is. We are what Bonhoeffer described

Christ happening is human happening

It happens in only world there is

We discover secular becomes transparent

It points to religious dimension of life.

The established church is just catching up with him. It will happen all at once. We'll see crumbling of present manifestation of the church. It has happened -- but we haven't seen it. We've been thru it but the established church hasn't seen it.

It's true with our lives. Sam Hanson is key to job being done tomorrow. There got to be a body of everyday men who will carry the torch. We are building the new order of society. The lawyers maintain it after we do it. You have a strange calling.

Bonhoeffer is just coming clear.

This is why Lens is absolute necessity.

S '71 was abstract sign of what had happened to us. We fell thru social to religious.

We'd been thinking theology for 20-30 years.

We put New Religious ? on secular (anthro) and we fell thru into religious.

Our lives are fate.

We would have projected piety into the world.

We've been there and have seen for ourselves.

Bonhoeffer would say show me.

We'd say "Stop looking." Death appears over

Suddenly awe appears.

It turns inward and meets his skin.

It meets objective and the 2 are together

He'd experienced himself as awe

In the midst of only world we know - law, market place is another world that's foundation of true religion and is home of true religious.

World has had a winter 73

The meek will inherit the earth, those who didn't have it will have it.