Kevin L. Hughes

Nothing Gained Is Eternal

Theology

“Nothing Gained Is Eternal cuts across imagined borders between 'left' and 'right' or 'progressive' and 'conservative.' If 'tradition' and 'liberation' are often considered the possessions of opposing theological camps, in Carpenter's hands they cannot be separated. In the spirit of Charles Péguy and Maurice Blondel, her guiding lights, Carpenter has offered an incisive book that will provoke strong reactions. Here Charles Péguy meets James Baldwin. Blondel meets Willie James Jennings. Nothing Gained Is Eternal is a book we have been waiting for, opening up another--doubtless very different-- ressourcement.”