Acceleration is a concept that defines a fundamental process of our time. How in an atmosphere of total transformation as this, the Church can continue to exist, an institution based on tradition, he thinks "in thousands" and seen as a positive force in their resistance to the spirit of the times? The trends of our time are not favorable to the commitments. The old values are beginning to falter. The discourse about God, the main goal of Christianity is increasingly less likely to be heard, and resulting cash-in a culture marked by science and dominated by the pleasure and consumption, and a society characterized by economic competition. The institutional balance between church and state, for example, are in danger. The new offerings make sense of a "market ideology" more individualized rival the Christian interpretation of man and the world. The struggle over divergent future options for Christianity and the Church threatens to be a tough test within the Church itself. What concerns, ideas and visions look to the future president of the German Episcopal Conference, Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz? What are the radical changes in him, as priest and bishop? In his conversation with Bishop Lehmann, Jürgen hoer insitencia arises the question of the Archimedean point of Christianity. Of interest to theologians, teachers and students of theology, as well as readers interested in theology, Christianity and the Church.