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Hauerwas Reader

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ISBN-10: 0822326914

ISBN-13: 9780822326915

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright

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Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today. A prolific lecturer and author, he has been at the forefront of key developments in contemporary theology, ranging from narrative theology to the "recovery of virtue." Yet despite his prominence and the esteem reserved for his thought, his work has never before been collected in a single volume that provides a sense of the totality of his vision. The editors of The Hauerwas Reader, therefore, have compiled and edited a volume that represents all the different periods and phases of Hauerwas's work. Highlighting both his constructive goals and penchant for polemic, the collection reflects the enormous…    
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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.37" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.574
Language: English

Stanley Hauerwas (PhD, Yale University) is chair in theological ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He previously taught at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including "Cross-Shattered Christ", "A Cross-Shattered Church", "War and the American Difference", and "Matthew" in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Introductions
An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader
Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a completely Unobjective Person
Reframing Theological Ethics
Who Are Christians? The Christian Story
How "Christian Ethics" Came to Be (1997)
On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983)
A Retrospective Assessment of an "Ethics of Character": The Development of Hauerwas's Theological Project (1985, 2001)
Why the "Sectarian Temptation" Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988)
Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981)
Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983)
The Church as God's New Language (1986)
What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship
Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001)
A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981)
Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich, with David B. Burrell (1974)
Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980)
The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship is Required (1993)
Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995)
How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified
Courage Exemplified, with Charles Pinches (1993)
Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992)
Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985)
Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981)
Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick, with Charles Pinches (1997)
New Intersections in Theological Ethics
The Church's Witness: Christian Ethics after "Public Theology"
The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983)
Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984)
On Being a Church Capable of Addressing a World at War: A Pacifist Response to the United Methodist Bishops' Pastoral In Defense of Creation (1988)
A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986)
Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It (1978)
The Radical Hope in the Annunciation: Why Both Single and Married Christians Welcome Children (1998)
Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993)
Christianity: It's Not a Religion, It's an Adventure (1991)
The Church's Hospitality: Christian Ethics after "Medical Ethics"
Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985)
Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984)
Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia, with Richard Bondi (1976)
Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person, But He Is Still My Uncle Charlie (1975)
Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991)
Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Scripture References
Name Index
Subject Index