Brian Hamilton

Discipleship as Christian Apologetic

[Christian] apology is always very close to what the New Testament calls “discipleship.”… To express it in a Hassidic idiom: An old Rabbi was the last one dragged before the Tribunal during one of the blood persecutions of the Jews. When was confronted with the question, “How do you justify your religious praxis?” he responded in the end, “How am I supposed to be able to convince you if all of this suffering does not?”

— Johann Baptist Metz, Faith in History and Society, §1.3

Judging from Ben Myers’s recent quote, it seems like Metz has a knack for finding good stories from the Jews.

3 October 2006 |
tags: Theological Ethics