the one we have to face in our pluralist societies, but from an extreme case we can learn something for ourselves. It is well known that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was at the heart of that struggle and who had also been involved in church life in the USA and in Britain, had to face the fact that the good liberal Christians in the Anglo-Saxon world who supported the Confessing Church, supported it for reasons which that Church was bound to reject. As Bonhoeffer saw it, it was a question of the nature