I was going to write a summary and response on What I'm Reading, but, frankly, I need to read and process them again. My only response right now is, “Dang.”
I have no doubts that holes can be poked in their thesis, but at this time, I think it’s more important that I hear what they said the respond in my soul. That being the case, my primary task for my retreat this weekend is to read the storyline of the OT/NT, memorize some creeds, and learn to story. Probably no blogging until Wednesday.
For now, I leave you with a couple quotes:
“…the challenge facing today’s Christians is not the necessity to translate Christian convictions into a modern idiom, but rather to form a community, a colony of resident aliens which is so shaped by our convictions that no one even has to ask what we mean by confessing belief in god as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” Hauerwas and Willimon, Resident Aliens, pg. 171.
[From The Door interview with Willimon and Hauerwas, quoted in Where Resident Aliens Live]
“[Being a resident alien in this culture}…means that the Gospel is weird and, if you believe the Gospel, then you will be weird. If you believe the Gospel, you feel yourself in collision with the most widely held and deeply affirmed values of this society…If you call on God, God will be there, and it will frighten the hell out of you” Hauerwas and Willimon, Where Resident Aliens Live, pg. 113, 118.
Any thoughts?
