“From the crisis of today a new Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so she will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, she will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only be free decision . And there the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center.”
(Googling for the author can bring up a surprise.)
feorinne
“From the crisis of today a new Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so she will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, she will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only be free decision . And there the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center.”
(Googling for the author can bring up a surprise.)
feorinne
I suspect that you two have much more in common than one could expect.
He’s twice a deserter, by the way (and my hero!))
Bio
I had to Google it (my guess was close, but not quite), and now that you mention it, I can see similarities as well. Interesting thing to think on. 🙂
feorinne
His book on eschatology is outstanding.
M Punkt
Erde weit verschlossen
So senkt
der Mensch
sein Geist
ins Grab
und baut
in seiner Hybris
Kirchen
als darauf
kein Herz
im Opferstock
sich findet
Itziar_Brion
I wish It would never be opened.
I
Tutta la secolare ignoranza