ABSTRACT
‘What is bothering me incessantly is the question … who Christ really is for us today’ (Bonhoeffer 1971:279). The question was asked by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a letter from the prison where he was held, just about a year before his execution. He was writing in Nazi Germany, in a country which had turned away from its long Christian tradition to embrace a neo-pagan ideology. The Nazi ideology has now been left behind, but Bonhoeffer's question remains, for to a large extent virtually all the countries of Europe have become secularized and Christianity has for long been a declining influence.
