Wording a Radiance. Daniel W. Hardy

(University of Virginia). There is also a film: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1106/cover.html. SR is growing fast in a number of countries around the world as a means of inter-faith dialogue.

13 My father died during the week when he had hoped to be at the annual SR gathering at the American Academy of Religion. Days before, when I told him that Peter wanted to come to see him, he protested (knowing how much SR meant to Peter) that he should go San Diego instead. When Peter decided to come anyway, he was only pacified when we agreed that we would do SR here, so that he could be part of it too. Sadly, Peter arrived just after he had died, but it seemed very fitting to honour this commitment anyway.

14 The New Jerusalem Bible suggests that ‘the land of Jordan and Hermon’ (v. 6) might refer to a place/stage on the route of the Israelites in exile.

15 Daniel Hardy, ‘Thoughts on a lifetime so far’, unpublished paper.

16 But he was later deeply encouraged by the appointment and vision of Will Storrar as one of his successors there.

17 When we discussed various options for his funeral, he said adamantly: ‘The most important thing is that it’s an act of worship, and that the person and place facilitate that.’

18 ‘Autistic’ in the psychoanalytic sense of the word: see Frances Tustin, The Protective Shell in Children and Adults, London: Karnac, 1990.

19 See Chapter 5, pp. 102–03.

20 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics, New York: Macmillan, 1955, p. 125.

21 St George’s Church, Flushing.

22 Only at the time of writing did it dawn on me that this was the psalm we studied together at the vigil before his funeral (see above).

23 Paul Ricœur, Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative and the Imagination, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.