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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...

has been given to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Creation and redemption name the great drama in which we become participants, performers, in God’s care of all that is. In more formal theological terms this means that the distinction between church and world is more fundamental than the distinction between nature and grace. Elsewhere I have argued that an account of nature is unavoidable for Christian theology if we are to rightly acknowledge that God graciously desires that
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