ericisrad.com: Is the Reformation Over? A Conversation Among Friends, a report. Eric Lee gives a great overview of the event and there is a photo gallery at the end.
Last weekend at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO, I attended the conference entitled "Is the Reformation Over? A Conversation Among Friends." Inspired by the question asked by a recent book by Mark Noll, Rev. Dr. John Wright set up a series of interviews with George Lindbeck, David Burrell, and Stanley Hauerwas.
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With that stage already set, I think the most important theme I heard in John's questions and in the responses to them by Lindbeck, Burrell, and Hauerwas, is one of friendship. All three of these guys have either attended or taught at Yale, and in one way or another over the years have deeply influenced each other through their work. And, while Burrell is (I think) the only one who has ever published a whole book out of these three on the topic of friendship, it was clear that this was a theme that pervaded the entirety of the discussions. Friendship, defined in an Aristotelian sense, has more to do with what friends share as common ends/goals, as opposed to mere agreement on issue X or Y. ….
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