triumphalism of society. Clinging to a dated dream of the past is much easier than the birth pangs of a new vision! In many quarters employing the language of the nineteenth century, the church still speaks in expansionistic terms, of positive thinking, of restoring prayer to the public schools, of making North America again the promised land. To put it in the categories of theology, the church has tended to follow a militant, exalted Christ. Such a Christology is more easily accommodated to the