The path from dogma to preaching has become very difficult. There are no longer any patterns of thought and assumptions that carry the content of dogma into everyday life; it is too much to demand of the individual preacher, however, that he himself should figure out each time the entire path from the doctrinal formula to its core and from there back to contemporary language. Should we not instead leave out dogma entirely? With such a radical cure, which appears to many today to be the only