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This book asks the question “what is religion?” from a theological perspective. In an age in which religion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that we should take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critique theologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion was central to the theological...

The work of Christ’s salvation knows no religious boundary, and in this context the existence of the church is as a provisional representation of all of humanity. A major problem for Christian universalism is that it can present itself as a principle rather than a hope.52 When professed as a principle rather than as a hope, universalism becomes precisely the kind of metaphysically orientated speech about salvation which Bonhoeffer critiques as religious. A version
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