God Is Not An Encyclopedia Whose Task

Prayer Is Not A Discourse. It Is A Form Of Life, The Life With God. That Is Why It Is Not Confined To The Moment Of Verbal Statement.

For The Word Is Dialectical In Itself And At The Same Time Is Integrated Into The Whole Of Existence. By This I Mean That The Word Is Intended To Be Lived.

In Reality This Is The Very Reverse Of What We Are Told About The Biblical God, Who Opens Up Freedom For Us, Who Lets Us Make Our Own History, Who Goes With Us On The More Or Less Unheard-of Adventures That We Concoct.

What We Are Witnessing At The Moment Is A Rearrangement Of The World In An Intermediate Stage; The Change Is Not In The Use Of A Natural Force But In The Application Of Technique To All Spheres Of Life.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).