Theological Journal – July 11 Lee Camp: Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians (1)
Lee Camp has given us what some have called a Resident Aliens , the influential and formative book co-authored by Stan Hauerwas and Will Willimon in 1989, for our own day. In fifteen propositions he fleshes out an ecclesial politic that well-positions the North American church for witness and mission in the 2020’s. Working on the premise that the only genuinely revolutionary power in the world is that found in Christian faith (quoting Merton, Kindle Loc.90), Camp poses that faith as a claim about the world and the particular way of life it entails. That makes it inherently political. In our day the threats and challenges to our world’s health and well-being intensify while at the same time the church destroys its own witness. Quoting Andrew Sullivan: “Yes, many Evangelicals are among the holiest and most quietly devoted people out there. Some have bravely resisted the cult. But their leaders have tribalized a religion explicitly built by Jesus as anti-tribal. They have ...