Brandon Ives

At the heart of Houston's vision of the Christian life is a relationship with God. But in our current age—an age when technology often supersedes or distorts human relationships and leaves many of us deeply lonely—we have trouble remembering how to be intimate with an Other. Houston usefully translates Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's notion of ethics into an evangelical-friendly idiom: Ethics is about living in the presence of another person. Therefore, what the Christian says to God is not "Here are all the things I think or feel about you," but "Here I am; relate to me."

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