Hauerwas for the people... Claims about the moral failure of the church characteristically employ a far too restricted sense of church [...] The church is where people faithfully carry out the task of being a witness to the reality of Gods Kingdom. We live in a mad existence where some people kill other people for abstract and unworthy entities called nations. The churchs first task is not to make the nation-state system work, but rather to remind us that the nation, especially as we know it today, is not an ontological necessity for human living. **The church, as an international society, is a sign that God, not nations, rule this world.** As Christians we are committed to the view that justice is possible between peoples because Gods justice is more profound than injustice. Such a view is not an unrealistic, idealistic, or utopian strategy; it is built on the profoundly realistic hope that God, not man, rules the world. - Stanley Hauerwas, *A Community of Character,* ch. 5
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:51:27 +0000
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