Taking Hold of the Real

Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had ""come to know and understand more and more the profound this-worldliness of Christianity."" In Taking Hold of the Real, Barry Harvey engages in constructive conversation with Bonhoeffer, contending that the ""shallow and banal this-worldliness"" of modern society is ordered to a significant degree around the social technologies of religion, culture, and race. These mechanisms displace human beings from their tradition...