Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology

“This book is attentive to the point of brilliance, compelling not least because it is humanly vivid, and rich in possibilities for the future of Christian theology – not to say, of philosophy that speaks English. Dula is a gifted expository stylist: succinct, varied, witty, self-critical, and unfailingly generous.”
-Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

“For decades colleagues in academic philosophy have found Stanley Cavell’s work much too unconventional to engage with seriously, apart from the handful grateful to him for his wonderful reading of Wittgenstein (another outsider, these days!). Political theorists, film buffs and literary critics, among others, have long enjoyed reading Cavell. Now, in this splendid book, themes in his work that connect with religious issues and especially with the Christian tradition are located and opened up, for the delight and illumination of theologians.”
–Fergus Kerr, Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh

“There is much to be gleaned and reflected on in this book but central for theologians and church leaders remains the question of whether we have evaded or given up the basic but hard work of companionship with our neighbor under the name of some redemptive but inaccessible ‘church.’ The book stands then as a further invitation to explore the everyday realities of companionship lingering long enough to see if in those spaces there exists the resources to construct a message of good news even if that message is fleeting, is fugitive.”–The Mennonite Quarterly Review