culture—partly the legacy of the older Ritschlianism (as Bonhoeffer saw) and widespread in our churches today. Professor Geoffrey Bromiley told me how one day, standing in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in California, high above Yosemite Valley, he was gazing at the beauty of the scene—the cascading waterfalls, the gigantic sequoia redwood trees, the lake below—when someone beside him exclaimed: ‘Do you know, if they put a dam down there, they could flood this valley and irrigate the farms of
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