Wherever the name of Jesus Christ is named, he is there as protection and obligation. That is true of all people who in their battle for justice, truth, humanity, and freedom have again learned to name the name of Jesus Christ. This name protects them and the high ideals for which they stand, while this protection is at the same time an obligation placed on them and these ideals…. This is not the calm, steady development of the power of Christ’s name, as perceived through the Middle Ages, nor is it the attempt to justify the name of Jesus Christ before the world through a connection with human names and ideals…. It is not a “Christian culture” that must make the name of Jesus Christ acceptable to the world; rather, the crucified Christ has become the refuge, justification, protection, and obligation for those higher ideals that have begun to suffer and for their defenders.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer