Against The Nations: War And Survival In A Liberal Society

Religion & Spirituality

Stanley Hauerwas

New Age & Spirituality

Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

"Against the Nations" is Stanley Hauerwas's most wideranging and sustained effort to develop a uniquely Christian ethic. The book moves from such general themes as "Keeping Theological Ethics Theological" and "Keeping Theological Ethics Imaginative" to the application of these themes to such diverse topics as the Holocaust, Jonestown, the reality of the Kingdom, the reality of the Church, the democratic state, nuclear war, and disarmament.

Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society

Christian Books & Bibles

HarperCollins, Publishers

Reflects on the meaning of the passion and death of Jesus.

Cross-Shattered Christ

History

Darton, Longman, and Todd

With passion and insight, eminent theologian Stanley Hauerwas argues for the recovery of the sermon as the place for theological reflection. He sees this as `crucial if Christians are to negotiate the world in which we find ourselves.' The book includes seventeen sermons preached by Hauerwas, the man described by Time magazine as `America's greatest theologian'.

Cross-Shattered Church

“When Character and the Christian Life first appeared in 1975, it was the most important theological contribution to moral debate to appear for many years. Hauerwas followed Catholic moral theology in making the theory of the virtues a topic for argument between secular and Christian moralities; but he linked that theory to a distinctively Protestant view of God’s relationship to human beings. And he did this in a way that might have been thought to challenge equally Catholic and Calvinist views of morality, let alone the impoverished and narcissistic perspectives of theological liberalism.” ―Alasdair MacIntyre, author of Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

Character and the Christian Life: A Study in Theological Ethics

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

Christians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle’s ethics together with the work of significant contemporary scholars such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum. Hauerwas and Pinches converse with, learn from, and also critically engage powerful and explicitly non-Christian accounts of virtues, and then form a specifically Christian account of certain key virtues, including obedience, hope, courage, and patience. This book will deepen the current public debate about virtue by showing how different traditions and practices yield distinctive understandings of the virtues, and by articulating the particularity of virtues informed by Christian practice. Hauerwas and Pinches begin with a discussion of Aristotle’s account of happiness, virtue, and friendship, and explore how the temporal character of life threatens the possibility of being virtuous. The authors then contrast this idea with the Christian recognition of our temporal limitations as a call to virtue, rather than a threat. In the second section, the authors address a work by John Casey which attempts to present an account of the virtues purged of their Christian heritage. This analysis, as well as the critical readings of MacIntyre and Nussbaum, will be of particular interest to philosophers and theologians alike. The authors bring a theological voice to the popular and philosophical debates about virtue. While the work encourages Christians to think about what is unique to Christian virtue, its specificity does not limit its applicability but opens up and deepens the debate over the particular interpretations of virtues: calling on others to present more specific articulations of what it means to be courageous, obedient, hopeful, and patient, and to contrast those accounts with the Christian interpretations presented by the authors. In this respect, Christians among the Virtues is the first work in what could be called the “second stage” of the recovery of the virtues―the work of understanding the difference among interpretations of the virtues in the light of different practices and traditions.

Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics

Charles R. Pinches

World

Revisions: Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy

Alasdair MacIntyre

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

SCM Press

Approaching the End

Should War Be Eliminated: Philosophical and Theological Investigations

Marquette University Press

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