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lambastes Bush, but combining the two does not always work. Still, as Bill and Hillary Clinton reminded us, it makes little sense to turn down the offer of two for one, especially when the two come...
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...Just as texts are not plays and scores are not music unless they are performed, so faith is neither subjective interpretation nor objective text...
...Similar questions about the potential vagaries of performance-based interpretation have been addressed to Paul Ricoeur...
...Faith is the work of dis-ters to Mario Cuomo, and we should be indebted to the governor for bringing him once again to our attention...
...While Hauerwas disagrees with Stout on numerous issues, he recognizes that Stout, unlike many liberal theorists, takes theology seriously in the conversation about the politics of our commonweal...
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...The way we participate in our "secular" life puts our trust not in princes, but in God...
...Lincoln matters to us, among other reasons, because he matPerforming the Faith Bonhoeffer and the Piactice of Nonviolence 11n1/t...
...Still, as Bill and Hillary Clinton reminded us, it makes little sense to turn down the offer of two for one, especially when the two come from a man as admirable and thoughtful as this one...
...I strongly agree with Hauerwas that performing faith is the right place to begin and end theology...
...Hauerwas warns us not to let comfort-able cliches seduce us into thinking that it is good to kill or oppress or marginalize others to preserve our cultural status, or that voting one way or another will help make this a Christian nation (whatever that may be...
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...Even virtuoso soloists require a performing community to train them and to sustain their work...
...Whether Bonhoeffer felt required to abandon his pacifist commitments in planning to do such violence in serving God's truth is controverted in Bonhoeffer studies...
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...A postscript replies appreciatively to Jeffrey Stout's book Democracy and Tradition (excerpted in Commonweal, October 10, 2003), which includes an extensive study of Hauerwas and the "new traditionalists...
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...This idea is supported and expanded by the other essays in Performing the Faith...
...Always stimulating, some-times exasperating, never boring, Hauerwas challenges us Christians to rethink our easy accommodations with the dominant culture...
...Faith is performance...
...To be a people of peace is not merely to be nonviolent (though it is that), but to be patient, hopeful, and graceful in living in and living out the faith...
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...If faith is also response to revelation as well as grace, what is revelation and how does it properly limit our responses...
...In them, Hauer-was seeks to reclaim Bonhoeffer from "secular" theologians and situation ethicists...
...Doing theology well means knowing how to display and sustain the ways of performing faith...
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...Taste is not merely subjective (as if "different strokes for different folks, different gods for different clods" expressed truth...
...No doubt we are embedded in our culture and our nation, and they shape us...
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...Other essays pay some overdue debts, especially to the late Victor Preller, renown scholar of Aquinas and Wittgenstein...
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...Rather, he re-minds Christians—sometimes stridently, though not in these essays—that we have no vested interest in liberal politics or economics...
...Theologians are to say and show how the community can per-form the faith in the theater of the world, no matter how absurd, challenging, or supportive that world may be...
...How are we to think about the structures and officers of the churches...
...The heart of this book is the essay "Performing Faith," co-written with Jim Fodor...
...Performing faith is not the work of individual people...
...It does not correlate formulated Christian answers with human questions...
...But narrative is the form of good theology, not a theological topic...
...Christian faith lives, moves, and has its being in the performance called discipleship...
...As always, through-out the volume Hauerwas is in conversation with an amazing number of religious and nonreligious theorists and practitioners...
...Taste is cultured in and through guided practice, by performance and appreciation...
...How can we cope with the increasing consumerism even of our religious practices...
...Hauer-was tends to conflate the two as "liberalism," " but I think the challenges from each are different...
...Two essays continue Hauerwas's pat-tern of distancing his views from the correlational theology associated with Paul Tillich, David Tracy, and their followers...
...And for excellent performers, be they actors, dancers, musicians, or Christians, the work plays them as much as they play the work, especially when they engage in that ecstatic improvisation that marks a brilliant performance...
...Two insightful studies of Bonhoeffer begin the book...
...He neither rails against liberalism nor calls for sectariCommonweal 3 0 September 10, 2004 Independence comes at a cost...
...I'O 'Terrence W. Tilley or the past thirty years, Stanley Hauerwas has been our most prolific, provocative, and pro-found theological essayist...
...Rather, the more skilled we become at living in and living out the faith, the deeper and richer our faith is...
...He profitably recognizes Bonhoeffer's efforts to connect politics with truthfulness, not with utility...
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...In an essay on liturgy and ethics, Hauerwas argues that these are not two domains to be connected, but that the liturgy properly enacted forms us into a people of good taste in both...
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...I am grateful for nearly thirty years of good-humored and generous, if too infrequent, conversations, in person and in writing, with Stanley Hauerwas...
...What can we say about the diversity of offices, tasks, and witness within our churches...
...The hallmark of performing the Christian faith is grace in action, as in a dance...
...The dance steps of faith are formed by the grace sustaining us, especially in the virtue of peaceableness, a necessary work of Christian charity...
...Forum, Shults Center DIANA L. HAYES "Keeping the Faith: The Ongoing Challenge of Vatican II for a Church in Crisis" Thursday, January 27, 2005, 7:00 p.m...
...Sometimes pacifists' only responses can be silence, tears of sorrow and horror, and prayers of repentance and for forgiveness of all...
...Presentations by: John Dear, Fran Ferder, lvonne Gebara, David Gibson, Diana Hayes, Martha Ann Kirk, Diarmuid O'Murchu, and many, many more...
...And is liberal democracy properly our bete noire, or is liberal capitalism...
...It is practical, not theoretical, wisdom...
...In an essay on narrative theology, he notes that his own work in this area has dwindled...
...Performing the faith is not a "quantitative" thing, as if piling up performances increased faith...
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...But our real and ultimate loyalty must be to the God who is truth, beauty, and goodness...
...De-spite (or because of) his being a Yale-educated Texan, he has challenged our complacency, reshaped our theological discourse, and made a concerted effort to say and show concretely what being Christian can mean for us today...
...Goodness and beauty are rightly matters of taste, but a taste that has been learned from a people trained to worship the true God truly...
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...Terrence W. Tilley is the author of Inventing Catholic Tradition (Orbis...
...Theology is fundamentally rhetorical performance...
...7613 www.loyola.ediu/pastoral an withdrawal from the political fray, as some seem to think...
...Another argues seriously yet playfully with radical orthodoxy about peaceableness as a key virtue in Christian life...
...Any novelty in theology is the result of novel circumstances requiring novel proclamation and performance...
...Hauerwas suggests that Bonhoeffer's participation in the plot to assassinate Hitler was a piece of his theological politics, an enacting of the truth of peaceableness in such a completely bizarre situation...
...Surely we do have and should have some loyalty to them...
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