From Somewhere Along the Road

“In your work on ethics you have provided us with resources for moving ahead, the importance of which we have been slow to recognize; we think of your stubborn insistence that a koinonia ethic is concerned with relations and functions, not with principles and precepts; your emphasis upon insight rather than calculation, upon coherence rather than consistency; … It now seems clear to us that you are pointing to a basic shift, long overdue, not only in ethics but also in the whole theological enterprise.”