The Hauerwas reader / Stanley Hauerwas ; edited by John Berkman and Michael Cartwright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-

Contributor:

Berkman, John, 1964-

Cartwright, Michael G.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (749 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Stanley Hauerwas Reader, including Hauerwas' essays and excerpts from his books and monographs, intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to his work.

Contents:

Part 1: Editorial Introductions: John Berkman, An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader. William Cavanaugh, Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person

Part 2: Reframing Theological Ethics Who Are Christians? The Christian Story

1. How "Christian Ethics" Came to Be (1997)

2. On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983)

3. A Retrospective Assessment of an "Ethics of Character": The Development of Hauerwas's Theological Project (1985, 2001)

4. Why the "Sectarian Temptation" Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988)

5. Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981)

6. Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983)

7. The Church as God's New Language (1986)

What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship

8. Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001)

9. A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981)

10. Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich, with David B. Burrell (1974)

11. Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980)

12. The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship Is Required (1993)

13. Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995)

How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified

14. Courage Exemplified, with Charles Pinches (1993)

15. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992)

16. Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985)

17. Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981)

18. Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick, with Charles Pinches (1997)

Part 3: New Intersections in Theological Ethics The Church's Witness: Christian Ethics after "Public Theology"

19. The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983)

20. Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984)

21. 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)

22. A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986)

23. Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It (1978)

24. The Radical Hope in the Annunciation: Why Both Single and Married Christians Welcome Children (1998)

25. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993)

26. Christianity: It's Not a Religion, It's an Adventure (1991)

The Church's Hospitality: Christian Ethics after "Medical Ethics"

27. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985)

28. Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984)

29. Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia, with Richard Bondi (1976)

30. 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)

31. Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991)

Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide / Michael G. Cartwright.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613061942

9781283061940

1283061945

9780822380368

0822380366

OCLC:

191222416