At the blog Withered Grass, I came across a discussion of a new book by Jonathan Malesic, Secret Faith for the Public Square: An Argument for the Concealment of Christian Identity (Brazos Press, Fall 2009).
An interesting contrast to much of what you hear from the religious right, and of special interest to me after posting the account of my visit to Bible Presbyterian Church, where the emphasis is on making sure one's faith is blazoned abroad in the public square.
One of Malesic's points is that Dietrich Bonhoeffer called for Christians "to intentionally conceal their Christian identity, silently transforming the secular by living in the world and practicing good works, but nourished by prayer and liturgy that exist primarily behind closed doors.” I don't know how much of that was in the context of living in a Nazi regime, of course.
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