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Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary - Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (Paperback)
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary - Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (Paperback)
Series: Theopolitical Visions, 1
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Description: In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary,
theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles
reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and
radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care
for the radical ordinary. They seek to shift political and
theological imaginations beyond the limits of contemporary
political formations (such as global capitalism, the mega-state,
and empire), which they argue are based upon both the denial and
production of death. Hauerwas and Coles call us to a revolutionary
politics of ""wild patience"" that seeks transformation through
attentive practices of listening, relationship-building, and a
careful tending to places, common goods, and diverse possibilities
for flourishing. Both authors translate back and forth across--as
well as dwell in the tensions between--the languages of radical
democracy and of trial, cross, and resurrection. Engaging each
other through a variety of genres--from essays, to letters, to
cowriting and dialogue--Hauerwas and Coles seek to enact a politics
that is evangelical in its radical receptivity across strange
differences and that cultivates power in relation to vulnerability.
The authors argue that there is a strong relation between hope and
imagination, as well as between imagination and the encounter with
and memory of those who have lived with receptive generosity toward
the radical ordinary. Hence, throughout this book they think
extensively in relation to specific lives and practices: from Ella
Baker and the early Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
organizing efforts for beloved community and civil rights, to
L'Arche communities founded by Jean Vanier, to contemporary
faith-based radical democratic organizing efforts in dozens of
cities by the Industrial Areas Foundation. Pushing and pulling each
other into new and insightful journeys of political imagination,
this conversation between a radical Christian and a radical
democratic trickster spurs us toward a politics that acknowledges,
tends to, and enacts the powers of the radical ordinary.
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