Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: Bonhoeffer on politics and truth -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's polit ical theology -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer on truth and politics -- Truthful pe rformances -- Performing faith: the peaceable rhetoric of God's church (w ith James Fodor) -- Connections created and contingent: Aquinas, Preller, Wittgenstein, and Hopkins -- The narrative turn: thirty years later -- S uffering beauty: the liturgical formation of Christ's body -- Performing nonviolence -- Explaining Christian nonviolence: notes for a conversation with John Milbank and John Howard Yoder -- Punishing Christians -- Septe mber 11, 2001: a pacifist response -- September 11, 2001: a sermon a year later