Well, I never heard back from the Vancouver Anarchist Bookfair about setting up a table. It’s too bad, because I would have enjoyed more dialogue about the important differences between secular anarchy and Christian anarchy. Although I am sure there would have been more confusion. For example, take this passage from an interview with Ellul: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘christendom’
Further Thoughts on Christian Anarchy
Posted in Ellul, ethics, politics, Theology, tagged anarchy, christendom, christian anarchy, eller, Ellul on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Church Against the World
Posted in ethics, politics, Theology, tagged christendom on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the faith of the church, the problem is not one of adjustment to the changing, relative and temporal elements but rather one of constant adjustment, amid these changing things, to the eternal. The crisis of the church from this point of view is not the crisis of the church in the world but of [...]
Kierkegaard and Hauerwas?
Posted in hauerwas, kierkegaard, Theology, tagged christendom, hauerwas, kierkegaard on June 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
In a conversation with Stanley Hauerwas in March, he divulged that he was very much influenced by Søren Kierkegaard. I asked him about this because I have intuited, although never really read, a strong connection between their work. Now, I wouldn’t want to overdo it and claim that Kierkegaard is the key to understanding Hauerwas, [...]