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...most theological conferences these days, shoptalk is likely to center on such modern themes as "the death of God," Tillich's "ultimate concern, " Bonhoeffer's "religionless" Christianity. Last week, in the spartan setting of Nashville's tiny Free Will Baptist Bible College, more than 200 Protestant thinkers met for clear, serious and certain discussions about some traditional concepts: grace, sin, faith and, above all, the inerrancy of the Bible...
...Ehrenretter is Evangelical Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the brilliant poet-theologian who conducted an underground divinity school for the Hitler-hating "Confessing Church," and was killed at a Bavarian prison shortly before its liberation by American troops. But Bonhoeffer's vivid, prophetic writing-outlining his dream of a "religionless Christianity" that would speak afresh to the modern secular world-is probably more important to young seminarians as a consequence of martyrdom...
...meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during World War II-"holy worldliness," "religionless Christianity," "cheap grace." But sometimes words lose favor when they are used too often; koinonia, from the Greek word for fellowship or communion, has been subject to almost as much misinterpretation as neurosis, and stirs troubled frowns nowadays when it is dropped into the conversation over divinity school coffee cups...
...lively introduction to his prickly, pithy style and his new Frontiersy eagerness to get U.S. Protestants moving again. In Second Chance for American Protestants (Harper & Row; $3.50), he argues that the churches are being "displaced" from their comfortable positions of influence in the U.S.; in an increasingly religionless world Christians are becoming once again, in the Biblical phrase, "strangers and exiles." This can be well and good, says Marty. The beliefs of Protestant churches have, in the U.S., formed the basis for a "consensus religion," which now has lost its impact: it is like faded wallpaper, visible everywhere but hardly...
Fortified by such insights, Robinson believes, the church may grow into what the late German Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "religionless Christianity" -a spare and stripped-down vital faith...