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We Have To Admit That There Is An Immeasurable Distance Between All That We Read In The Bible And The Practice Of The Church And Of Christians.

The Intellectual Who Wants To Do Her Work Properly Must Today Go Back To The Starting Point: The Woman Whom She Knows, And First Of All To Herself. It Is At That Level, And At No Other, That She Ought To Begin To Think About The World Situation.

In Point Of Fact There Are A Certain Number Of Values And Of Forces Which Are Of Decisive Importance In Our World Civilization: The Primacy Of Production, The Continual Growth Of The Power Of The State And The Formation Of The National State, The Autonomous Development Of Technics, Etc. These, Among Others - Far More Than The Ownership Of The Means Of Production Or Any Totalitarian Doctrine - Are The Constitutive Elements Of The Modern World. So Long As These Elements Continue To Be Taken For Granted, The World Is Standing Still.

Science Brings To The Light Of Day Everything Man Had Believed Sacred. Technique Takes Possession Of It And Enslaves It.

We Are Not To Make The Torah Into God Himself, Nor The Bible Into A "paper Pope." The Bible Is Only The Result Of The Word Of God. We Can Experience The Return Of The Word Of God In The Here And Now, The Perpetual Return Of The Actual, Living, Indisputable Word Of God That Makes Possible The Act Of Witnessing, But We Should Never Think Of The Bible As Any Sort Of Talisman Or Oracle Constantly At Our Disposal That We Need Only Open And Read To Be In Relation To The Word Of God And God Himself.