life, which each individual attempts to distill for himself from the Bible as well as he is able. Dogma, from which the ground of Scripture has been pulled away, no longer stands. The Bible that has freed itself from dogma has become a document about the past and, thereby, itself belongs to the past. This situation is not equally obvious everywhere. The methods are not always used in the same radical manner, and the search for corrective factors has long been underway. In this respect,