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Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence is unavailable, but you can change that!

September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq—more than ever, this is a time for the church to be taking up the question of what, as Christians, our response to violence should be. In Performing the Faith, Stanley Hauerwas revisits the familiar territory of political nonviolence through discussion of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Christian ethicist, theologian, and by some definitions, martyr. This book...

it? Here, too, is a necessary fragment of life—“but I will you your life as a prize of war.”16 However, thanks to Eberhard Bethge’s great biography of Bonhoeffer, we know the main outlines of Bonhoeffer’s life. Bethge’s biography makes it impossible to treat Bonhoeffer’s theology apart from his life. Therefore I must give some brief overview of his life no matter how inadequate. I have chosen, however, to highlight those aspects of Bonhoeffer’s life that suggest his passion for the church. Yet I
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