When we speak about resistance in the second world war we always speak about the French resistance but we must not forget that there was a German resistance as well against Nazi Germany made of refined German intellectuals, philosophers and avant garde theologians. Such was the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
While a German in the prison of Tegel he composed sublime letters on theology. He basically created a theological testament for the church of the future. In his cell he had the revelation of the concept of religionless religion.
He realized the growing religiouslessness of our age and therefore the urgency to preach religion in a non-religious way to be understood in a godless world. Therefore in the solitude of his cell he built another Christ for modernity that he called The Lord of the religionless.
Bonhoeffer set up the avant garde theology by asking the right questions such as= what is a secular God? Why to live without God is to live in him? How to speak of God in a Godless world? By being the first to speak of religionless religion he was the first to act on the great religious revolution of our times which is the apparition of God in religiouslessness.
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