Church and Theology: From Here to Where?

“Corresponding to what I called the theistic container, which has shaped divinity into a God existing over against the world, is the religious organization, which has shaped the church into a community existing over against the secular order…I believe in fact that what is dissolving is the casing of the church, and that this process could be one of release and liberation. Just as, in the God-debate, ‘the end of theism’ meant the end not of God but of one way of expressing the divine reality, so I believe that the decay of the religious organization is the decay of one body in which the church has hitherto lived and whose demise may be necessary for its resurrection.”