ABSTRACT
This essay provides a contemporary look at the situation in East Germany. Yet it is also concerned with a more general phenomenon that is found throughout the Western world. Tiefensee draws our attention to a highly secularized and indeed, a “religiously indifferent” context. He challenges the popular claim that “everyone is religious.” If the church wants to engage this context from a Christian perspective, it will need to develop an “ecumenism of the third kind.” This is a unique form of Christian witness that can emerge in the context of “religionlessness.”
