War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
From Stanley Hauerwas
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.
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