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Hauerwas’ intention in this chapter: “to explain why Barth’s life and work provides those of us who have come after him a resource, a witness that we literally cannot live without.”

“What [William] James could also have learned from Aquinas, and this he could not have learned from Darwin, is that it is hard to sustain the human project if we deny our created status. Humanism, even the eloquent humanism to which James gave voice, when separated from the source that makes it intelligible, cannot help but make of humans more or less than what we in face are.”

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