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Title: Introduction
Subtitle: Imaginery Enemies
Author(s): MAERTENS, Guido
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 2    Issue: 1   Date: April 1995   
Pages: 1-2
DOI: 10.2143/EP.2.1.563066

Abstract :
In giving his reasons for leaving the Evangelical Church in Germany a certain man cited 'the Drewermann affair'. Once it was pointed out to him that 'the Drewermann affair' was really more of a problem within the Catholic Church he curtly retorded: 'Whatever! Its all the same to me.' This anecdote was related a few years ago by the Evangelical theologian Dorothee Sölle in an issue of 'Evangelische Kommentare'. When we hear concerned questions about society's increasing indifference towards religion from a critical political theologian such as Sölle, we ought to take note.

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