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78 78McFague, Models of God, 159.

79 79McFague, Models of God, 159.

80 80McFague, Models of God, 159.

81 81Paul J. Wadell, Friendship and the Moral Life (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), 120, 142.

82 82Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice and the Practice of Christian Friendship (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2002).

83 83Tobias Winright, “Thanks Be to God for Paul J. Wadell: Essays in Honor of a Friend and His Work,” Journal of Moral Theology 10, no. 1 (2021): 106–107.

84 84Paul D. O’Callaghan, The Feast of Friendship (Wichita: Eighth Day, 2002).

85 85Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Rediscovering Friendship: Awakening to the Power and Promise of Women’s Friendships, trans. John Bowden (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001); Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, “Friendship—The Forgotten Category for Faith and Christian Community: A Perspective for the Twenty-First Century,” in Passion for God: Theology in Two Voices (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003); Steve Summers, Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity (London: T&T Clark International, 2009); John of Taizé, Friends in Christ: Paths to a New Understanding of Church (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012); Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2015).

86 86Chloe Lynch, Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship (London: Routledge, 2019).

87 87Victor Lee Austin, Friendship: The Heart of Being Human (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic).

88 88Guido de Graaff, Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account (London: T&T Clark, 2014).

89 89Susan S. Phillips, The Cultivated Life: From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy (Downers Grove: IVP, 2015), 180–182.

90 90Phillips, The Cultivated Life, 168.

91 91Phillips, The Cultivated Life, 167.

92 92Charles Ringma, Hear the Heartbeat with Henri Nouwen: Reflections on the Way of the Seeking Heart (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2014), 62–65.

93 93Ringma, Hear the Heartbeat, 64.

94 94Ringma, Hear the Heartbeat, 68.

95 95Carmichael, Friendship, 201.

96 96While friendship continues to be celebrated in a variety of popular works, friendship is sometime portrayed as taking precedence over civic responsibilities. This is evident in the Captain America movies and the ongoing Star Wars saga. For the latter, see Greg Littmann, “The Friends of a Jedi: Friendship, Family, and Civic Duty in a Galaxy at War,” in The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned, ed. Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015), 128.

97 97Moltmann, Church in the Power of the Spirit, 316.

98 98Moltmann, Church in the Power of the Spirit, 316. Cited, with modified translation, in John of Taizé, Friends in Christ, 86.

99 99Mark Peel, “The Importance of Friends: The Most Recent Past,” in Friendship: A History, ed. Barbara Caine (London: Equinox, 2009), 329.

100 100Martin Luther King Jr., “Loving Your Enemies,” in Strength to Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1963). See also Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” The Christian Century, June 12, 1963.

101 101Glen H. Stassen, “Peacemaking,” in Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought, ed. Willis Jenkins and Jennifer M. McBride (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010), 197.

102 102Stassen, “Bonhoeffer and King,” 197–198.

103 103As summarized by L.D. Ivory, “Towards a Theology of Radical Involvement: The Continuing Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (PhD diss., Emory University, 1994), 111.

104 104See, for example, Glynis Carr, “The Female World of Love and Racism: Interracial Friendship in US Women’s Literature, 1840-1940” (PhD diss., The Ohio State University, 1989).

105 105Jean Bethke Elshtain, “Political Order, Political Violence, and Ethical Limits,” in Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought, ed. Willis Jenkins and Jennifer M. McBride (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010), 47.

106 106Friendship is also reflected in the name of a New York-based organization formed to direct economic aid to the civil rights struggle in the South: In Friendship. See “In Friendship,” The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/friendship.

107 107Susannah Heschel, “A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr,” Telos, no. 182 (2018): 67.

108 108Lewis V. Baldwin, Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1995), 12.

109 109Gustavo Gutiérrez, We Drink From Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People, 20th anniversary ed. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003), 104.

110 110Gutiérrez, We Drink From Our Own Wells, 101.

111 111Gutiérrez, We Drink From Our Own Wells, 104.

112 112Chanequa Walker-Barnes, I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019), 215.

113 113Walker-Barnes, Voices of My People, 216.

114 114Walker-Barnes, Voices of My People, 190.

115 115Pat O’Connor, Friendships between Women: A Critical Review (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992), 26.

116 116Jennifer Coates, Women Talk: Conversation between Women Friends (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), 1.

117 117Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship, trans. George Collins (London: Verso, 1997), 306. See also Jacques Derrida, Politiques de l’amitié (Paris: Galilée, 1994).

118 118Heather Devere, “Amity Update: The Academic Debate on Friendship and Politics,” AMITY 1, no. 1 (2013): 5.

119 119Allen, Talking to Strangers, 140.

120 120Allen, Talking to Strangers, xxi.

121 121Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), xiii.

122 122Astrid H.M. Nordin, “Decolonising Friendship,” AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies 6, no. 1 (2020): 89.

123 123Nordin, “Decolonising Friendship,” 109.

124 124See Devere, “Amity Update: The Academic Debate on Friendship and Politics,” 25.

125 125See Margaret Kohn and Kavita Reddy, “Colonialism,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N Zalta (2017).

126 126Kohn and Reddy, “Colonialism.”

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