lines,[15] nevertheless did not pursue these thoughts all the way, did not think them through,[16] but ended up with a positivism of revelation,[17] which in the end essentially remained a restoration. For the working person or any person who is without religion, nothing decisive has been gained here. The questions to be answered would be: What does a church, a congregation, a sermon, a liturgy, a Christian life, mean in a religionless world? How do we talk about God—without religion, that is, without