The Rise of the Therapeutic

Howerwass: The primary social task of the church is to be itself. To be like Jesus requires that I become part of a community that practices virtues, not that I copy his life point by point. He says we fail to recognize that we've actually just bought into the liberalism story of you can make your own story. Howerwass said one can only learn how to be virtuous, to be like Jesus, by learning from how from others how that is done.