{"id":7240,"date":"2013-06-05T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2013-06-05T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:44:41","slug":"morally-exemplary-friendships-wesley-hill-looks-for-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/06\/morally-exemplary-friendships-wesley-hill-looks-for-examples.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Morally Exemplary Friendships&#8221;: Wesley Hill looks for examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at First Things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026When I originally announced that I was working on a book about friendship, Ben Myers suggested I pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Uncommon-Friendships-Amicable-History-Religious\/dp\/1556358369\/ref=la_B0032XJ6GQ_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370375582&amp;sr=1-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Uncommon Friendships: An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought<\/em><\/a> by William Young. The book focuses on three pairs of friends\u2014Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, and Julia Kristeva and Catherine Cl\u00e9ment, all of whom were influential twentieth century religious thinkers\u2014and tries to show how their particular friendships were essential to the intellectual work they accomplished. Ben\u2019s comment to me, after passing along the recommendation, was, \u201cI reckon someone ought to write a history of theology along these lines!\u201d And that wouldn\u2019t be hard to do: think of Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Eberhard Bethge, and that\u2019s not even venturing beyond a small slice of twentieth century German Protestantism!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/06\/05\/morally-exemplary-friendships\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at First Things: \u2026When I originally announced that I was working on a book about friendship, Ben Myers suggested I pick up Uncommon Friendships: An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought by William Young. 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