Hauerwas and Willimon were teaching at Duke’s Divinity School when they published their famous book “Resident Aliens.”
A colony is a beachhead, an outpost, an island of one culture in the middle of another, a place where the values of home are reiterated and passed on to the young, a place where the distinctive language and life-style of the resident aliens are lovingly nurtured and reinforced. . . .
The church is a colony, an island of one culture in the middle of another. In baptism our citizenship is transferred from one dominion to another, and we become, in whatever culture we find ourselves, resident aliens.
Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon
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