Third Way: You once said of Karl Barth that he would have been a better theologian if he had read more Trollope. Can you name some novels that you think are essential reading for a theological vision? And say why?
Hauerwas: Well… Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky looked into the heart of the world that was [in the process of being born] and, I think, saw clearly how it made Christianity unintelligible to itself. And of course to look into the heart of that world was also just to look into the heart. He saw the terror...
