Why I Signed the Yale Response to "A Common Word"
John Stackhouse, Jr. Monday, 1 December 2008
Over the last year or so, various Christians have contacted me because they are troubled over encountering my name amidst dozens of other signatories listed in a New York Times advertisement as endorsing a public statement of support for the recent document, "A Common Word Between Us and You." (I'm glad to say that others have contacted me to express their appreciation that I did sign it.) The statement of support, entitled " Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to ‘A Common Word Between Us and You'", was drafted by several professors at Yale Divinity School, including my friend Miroslav Volf, founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology.
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