Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts by Andreas Bodenstein (Carlstadt) from Karlstadt Edward J. Furcha, translator and editor Classics of the Radical Reformation, 8 Waterloo, ON: Herald Press, 1995. 449 p (original) (raw)

1998, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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The collection "The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts by Andreas Bodenstein (Carlstadt)" translated and edited by Edward J. Furcha presents significant works of Andreas Bodenstein, a radical Reformation figure. The tracts reveal Carlstadt's complex theology, addressing themes such as the Eucharist, humanism, and various personal and political dimensions of faith. Furcha captures the essence of Carlstadt's beliefs while emphasizing his unique contribution to early Reformation debates as he navigates his relationship with other reformers like Luther.

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The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology ? Edited by David Bagchi and David C. Steinmetz

International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2006

In the preface to this collection of essays, the editors describe their experience of engaging Stanley Hauerwas as joyful, frustrating and transformative. Jones, Hütter and Velloso Elwell are each able to use their personal friendship with Hauerwas to inform their reflections on his theological and prophetic service to the church. Though I have never had the honour of nurturing a friendship with Stanley Hauerwas, from the testimony of others it appears that the experience of encountering him personally is similar to engaging his written work: joyful, frustrating and transformative. These sentiments are echoed throughout the various essays compiled in God, Truth, and Witness. Engaging with Stanley Hauerwas is joyful. It is joyful because Hauerwas is a Christian and he unabashedly writes as one. What is joyful about this is that Hauerwas is able to engage his friends in such a way as to spur them on to projects that differ significantly from his own. Such joy is particularly evident in the essays written by those who cannot be explicitly 'Hauerwasian' but have found engagement with him to be a fruitful pursuit. Rowan Greer's essay, 'Sighing for the Love of Truth: Augustine's Quest', takes Hauerwasian themes and uses them as a heuristic device to interpret Augustine's not-so-Hauerwasian understanding of truth, particularly the conception found in his Confessions. In his 'Can we be Free without a Creator?', David Burrell favours Aquinas' notion of responsive freedom over the libertarian trajectories of modern philosophy. In order to guard human freedom from collapsing into power games, freedom requires a sovereign creator, such as the one sustained in the Abrahamic faiths. In his personal and pensive essay, 'The Virtue of Writing Appropriately', Hans S. Reinders respectfully disagrees with Stanley Hauerwas's decision to cease writing about 'the mentally handicapped'. Reinders introduces his readers to his friend Ronald (a man with an intellectual disability whose life is lived largely in a mental institution) and implements Hauerwas's conception of friendship to reflect on the gifts borne out of sustained relationship with those who differ from us. In 'Representing the Absent City', Bernd Wannenwetsch provides a theo-political reading of Revelation 21: the vision of the heavenly city of God. The symbols of the earthly city are conspicuously absent from the heavenly city. The heavenly city might be read as a negative political theology through which all earthly cities are critiqued, thus highlighting the sustaining vision by which Christians are guided to faithful living. In 'An Immense Darkness', Nicholas Lash follows Hauerwas's boldness by rereading Joseph Conrad's

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