What if Salvation is about this Life? Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity

In a letter written to Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, "The Christian hope of resurrection is different from the mythological in that it refers people to their life on earth in a wholly new way...Christians do not have an ultimate escape route out of their earthly tasks and difficulties into eternity." In other words, the gospel is not good news about life after we die, it is good news for out life in and for this world. How does this change what it means to live a Christian life?

[@caseysaccullo4523]

Well said, I have personally been wondering about this for a while now, I can't help but wonder how much Eastern theology has become Christianity.

[@Kitiwake]

Of course it's not.
That's a denial of ministry and deity of Jesus Christ.

[@Kitiwake]

Bonhoeffer was no Christian then.

[@professorlief4804]

Or, could it be that Christianity as we think of it today in the West has strayed from gospel message? He believes in eternal life, which includes life after life after death as N.T. Wright puts it. BUT, like the gospel of John, he emphasizes this begins now.