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HANNAH'S CHILD : A LIFE GIVEN AND THEREFORE LIVED
Author(s) -
RICHES AARON
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2012.01745.x
Subject(s) - witness , eschatology , memoir , politics , philosophy , sequela , aesthetics , epistemology , psychoanalysis , sociology , literature , theology , law , art , psychology , political science , linguistics , psychiatry
In response to Hannah's Child , this essay begins from the reality of “unlikely friendships” and the idea of the “conservative radical”. The essay then moves into a discussion of three particular themes raised in Hauerwas's memoir and in his work generally: Christocentrism as sequela Christi ; Christian politics as eschatology; and witness as the heart of Christian life. What draws the various themes of the essay together is the proposal that givenness is the unique and Christocentric key to the Christian unity of thought and practice.