The Church as a Sub-Community

Bruggemann: Pope John Paul II sparked the hope and power of these underground hidden half-open sub-communities. He says a Christian congregation in the prosperous U.S. is not at all parallel to sub-community of resistance and alternative in a more manifestly brutal society. Bruggemann talks about the sub-community versus the royal consciousness. The royal consciousness does not want the sub- community to be active, he writes.