Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A ‘non-religious’ view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- #80

[April 1999 journal entry]

As I have become increasingly/irreversibly ‘non-religious’, some concepts/vocabulary from my ‘religious’ heritage have been reborn with radically (i.e., to the root) new meaning (e.g., for me – ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘grace’, ‘faith’, ‘prayer’, ‘time’, . . .). But other concepts/vocabulary from my ‘religious’ heritage remain dead (e.g., for me – ‘lord’, ‘kingdom’, ‘heaven’, ‘hell’, ‘sheep’, ‘shepherd’, ‘follower’, . . .).