What Metaxas Gets Wrong about Religionless Christianity

In the first chapter of his book Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil, Eric Metaxas uses Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity to criticize the secularization of the Christian faith. “To what secular pressures and narratives have Christian leaders acceded, thinking it will help them reach the unchurched?” The problem? He seems to misunderstand what Bonhoeffer meant. For Bonhoeffer, religionless Christianity is focused on this world, not the next; it is about embracing a world come of age, not standing in opposition to it. This episode explores this and more.