We as Christians are in a position to respond to it out of the riches of the Judeo-Christian tradition, newly revisited with just these experiences in hand. Hall suggests that if we were to rethink our own tradition, bearing with us the terrible thirst for transcendence and mystery in the soul of modern humanity, we would more consistently discover the means for engaging it from the side of gospel. Finally, there is a quest for meaning. All over the Western world there are covert and overt attempts to discover purpose. Under the threat of nonbeing, humankind asks openly for the meaning of being.
Religion is again interesting to many.
Hall therefore challenges that Christians now rethink the basic things of our tradition in such a way as to discover in them that through which we may address our age with fresh insight and conviction. According to Hall, the most urgent message of the divine Spirit to modern churches is that we should disestablish ourselves in order to liberate ourselves from the conventions of culture-religion. Christian disengagement from the dominant culture is not to be confused, however, with the abandonment of that culture. The end that we are to seek is the redemption of our world. Today, we are constrained by the divine Spirit to rediscover the possibilities of littleness.