Word: religionless
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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...