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Faithfulness and fortitude : conversations with the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas / edited by Mark Thiessen Nation and Samuel Wells.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-.
- Faith.
- Theology.
- Local Subjects:
- Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : T & T Clark, 2000.
- Summary:
- This book marks the first detailed engagement with the work of Stanley Hauerwas in a British context.An important group of theologians including Colin Gunton, Duncan Forrester, Gerard Loughlin, Ann Loades, Enda McDonagh, Nigel Biggar, Linda Woodhead, John Milbank and Stephen Sykes considers issues prominent in Hauerwas' work such as war and pacifism, urban deprivation, mental health, gender, abortion, the Church and cinema, and Church politics.The collection concludes with a response from Hauerwas himself.
- Contents:
- Introducing Hauerwas
- Stanley Hauerwas: Where Would We Be Without Him? / Mark Thiessen Nation 19
- Embodying Hauerwas
- 3 In the University
- The Conflict of the Faculties: Theology and the Economy of the Sciences / John Milbank 39
- 4 In Mental Health Care
- Spirituality and Mental Sickness / Stephen Sykes 59
- 5 In War and Peace
- The First Word Christians Have to Say About Violence Is 'Church': On Bonhoeffer, Baptists, and Becoming a Peace Church / Mark Thiessen Nation 83
- 6 In an Urban Estate
- No Abiding Inner City: A New Deal for the Church / Samuel Wells 117
- Testing Hauerwas
- 7 Social Withdrawal
- Is Stanley Hauerwas Sectarian? / Nigel Biggar 141
- 8 Gender
- Can Women Love Stanley Hauerwas? Pursuing an Embodied Theology / Linda Woodhead 161
- 9 Good and Evil
- The Church and the Concentration Camp: Some Reflections on Moral Community / Duncan B. Forrester 189
- Conversing With Hauerwas
- 10 Virtue
- The Church as a School of Virtue? Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework / Colin Gunton 211
- 11 Abortion
- On Abortion: Some Feminist and Theological Reflections / Ann Loades 233
- 12 Cinema
- Looking: The Ethics of Seeing in Church and Cinema / Gerard Loughlin 257
- 13 Politics
- Prophecy or Politics? The Role of the Churches in Society / Enda McDonagh 287
- Where Would I Be Without Friends? / Stanley Hauerwas 313.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0567087387
- OCLC:
- 45304156
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