Sep 13, 2008
William Cavanaugh on the Church
“…The church must recover its prophetic voice, but it cannot be merely negative. If the church is going to call people away from idolatry and remind them of their primary allegiance to Christ, then it will have to do more than to rail against the illusions of freedom enforced by coercion. The church will have to tell a more persuasive story of liberation than that told by the Empire. It will have to tell a more difficult and complex story of liberation through obedience to God’s will, not to the human will. It will have to tell a story of the conquest of violence not by inflicting more violence, but by absorbing it. And it will have to tell this story of liberation not just in words, but in witness…”
