Summary and Critique from the Perspective of a Christian Theologian

Abstract

I am writing here as an exegete, not as a philosopher. As an exegete, I am the advocate of a client that can no longer defend itself against misinterpretations. Thus — despite all of the harmonistic tones concerning the reconciliation of the religions — I can never abandon the fight of the prophets for the one and only God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I also cannot betray the commission of Jesus, especially in view of the religious situation in the large German cities north of the Main River and in the former East Germany. The struggle is not waged against other venerable religions, but against self-concocted cocktails coming from Goethe, Albert Schweitzer, and Wilhelm Busch. This kind of religion cannot survive the first bout of lovesickness.