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 co-writing 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.
ISBN: 9781556352973 (2007) 378pp