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This must be stressed because it is absolutely essential to the argument of this concluding chapter.

Modern man, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer has told us, has `` come of age '' ; ;

and though this process by no means represents an unambiguous gain and is, in fact, marked by the estrangement from the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation, it is still a positive step forward ; ;

and those of us who so richly benefit from it should be the last to despise it.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.