With the grain of the universe : the church's witness and natural theology : being the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001 / Stanley Hauerwas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God.

Natural theology.

Physical Description:

249 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, [2001]

Summary:

This collection of Hauerwas's lectures explores how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live. He criticizes those who use natural theology to defend theism as the philosophical prerequisite to confessional claims.

Contents:

1. God and the Gifford Lectures 15

2. The Faith of William James 43

3. God and William James 65

4. The Liberalism of Reinhold Niebuhr 87

5. Reinhold Niebuhr's Natural Theology 113

6. The Witness That Was Karl Barth 141

7. The Witness of the Church Dogmatics 173

8. The Necessity of Witness 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1587430169

OCLC:

46976563