Yet this renunciation of the theater implies, naturally, a type of culture in its entirety, or rather, the sickness of a culture, from which anyone who wanted to become a Christian first had to detach himself in order to strive to see God’s image in man and to live accordingly.4 And so this baptismal renunciation is the epitome of the culture-critical character of Christianity and a sign of the “cut” that it involves.
