Edited sentence: Among German scientists who were also Christian laity, Heim's views had contemporary company.So while German theologians Karl Barth and Rudolph Bultmann discouraged any sort of interdisciplinary religious dialogue with science and other intellectual disciplines, scientists such as Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Gunther Howe, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker readily participated in religion and science dialogues from the 1930s onward.Until the late 1970's Karl Heim's call for a religion and science dialogue was a lone voice amongst German theologians