[395] We can simply use the [phrase] "the experience of brokenness," we can speak of "the expressionistic situation"--all these terms mean the same thing. Or we can say "the RESISTING turn of thought and experience," "the experience of resistance." The interesting thing is that this resistance is as old as the situation against which it is directed. It starts with the 17th century, sometimes even the 16th; it goes on through the 18th century as "underground," and it comes to the 19th century where it breaks out in special volcanoes of tremendous power; and it becomes overflooding

everything, in the 20th century. This resistance is also a part of our situation. It has not yet changed the foundations of this situation, but it has attacked them. Here again I can now refer to those which belong to the second and to the fourth group, which I called, with an all-embracing term, style^a of expression. This style of expression belongs to the total resistance against the consequences of present-day industrial^b society to make man into an object amongst objects within the dimension of subject- objectivity, within the dimension in which we manage reality. Now this resistance has provided the tools which it might really be possible to

liberate religion^c from the fundamental misunderstanding that it is a part of the subject-object structure of reality. It is not a PART of anything; it is a DIMENSION IN EVERYTHING! Only if we understand this, do we understand what religion is. The movement which I call "the movement of resistance" has shown the human situation in such a way that, so to speak, that which was covered by the process of creating gadgets, means