Description: In its various forms, speech is absolutely integral to
the Christian mission. The gospel is a message, news that must be
passed on if it is to be known by others. Nevertheless, the reality
of God cannot be exhausted by Christian knowledge and Christian
knowledge cannot be exhausted by our words. All the while, the
philosophy of modernity has left Christianity an impoverished
inheritance within which to think these things. In Speak Thus,
Craig Hovey explores the possibilities and limits of Christian
speaking. At times ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical,
these essays go to the heart of what it means to be the church
today. In practice, the Christian life often has a linguistic shape
that surprisingly implicates and reveals the commitments of people
like those who care for the sick or those who respond as
peacemakers in the face of violence. Because learning to speak one
way as opposed to another is a skill that must be learned,
Christian speakers are also guides who bear witness to the
importance of churches for passing on a felicity with Christian
ways of speaking. Through constructive engagements with
interlocutors like Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Lindbeck, Jeffrey
Stout, Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Thomas Aquinas, and the
theology of Radical Orthodoxy, Hovey offers a challenging vision of
the church--able to speak with a confidence that only comes from a
deep attentiveness to its own limitations, while also able to speak
prophetically in a world weary of words. Endorsements: ""Craig
Hovey offers us a book of Christian manners. Just as manners are
the skills and practices we require to be equally at home in many
social contexts, so Hovey shows how the gospel equips us to be
equally at home wherever the mission of God takes us, because we
are always at home with the Lord. Hovey maintains Christians have
not been told what to say, but have instead been shown how to
speak. In this book he continues his emergence as one of the most
profound and penetrating scrutinizersof what it means to speak,
witness, and confess to the Christian faith. To read this book is a
masterclass in learning to speak simple truth amid a cacophony of
contemporary cleverness."" --Reverend Canon Dr. Sam Wells Dean of
the Chapel, Duke University; Research Professor of Christian Ethics
""Hovey's finely crafted collection of essays --both persuasive and
contentious--manages to combine great clarity with nuance.
Apparently opposed positions are exposed as sharing common
presuppositions, with Hovey frequently being able to provide an
alternative positive conception or perspective. In an un-showy but
impressive way, Hovey's writing is richly informed by the tradition
and practices to which he is committed. The voice that emerges is
passionate, urgent and wry."" --Christopher Insole, Department of
Theology and Religion, Durham University About the Contributor(s):
CRAIG R. HOVEY (PhD, University of Cambridge) teaches religion and
ethics at the University of Redlands and Fuller Theological
Seminary Extension in Southern California. He is the author of To
Share in the Body (2008).
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