The Light that Enlightens Them

In a sermon delivered at his home church (Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas turns his attention to the topic of glory:

Our glory, therefore, is Gods glory as shown through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. This means that the glory of God entails a politics with death at its center. It is a politics well diagnosed by Augustine, who contrasted the Christian understanding of what it means for us to reflect the glory of God with the Roman desire for glory.

According to Augustine, it…