Bonhoeffer's Prophecy

In one of his last letters from prison, just before he was murdered by the Nazi regime, the Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically about the future of Christianity and the world. These are his words:

It is not for us to prophesy the day (though the day will come) when men will once more be called so to utter the word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it. It will be a new language, perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming--as was Jesus' language; it will shock people and yet overcome them by its power. (Letter and Papers from Presion, 1967, p. 300)

That day may already be here, and my sense is that it involves the return of lost aspects of early Christianity and the non-dual, visionary seeing of Jesus, as well as the expression of that seeing in fresh, new poetic forms which also seem to be emerging in our day. Some of these are shocking to us because they come from other parts of the Abrahamic stream, while others come from the great body of Sacred Tradition which holds the world's treasury of traditional wisdom.