Kategoriarkiv: Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas: Det fredliga riket

Min översättning av Stanley Hauerwas klassiker Det fredliga riket kan nu beställas från Artos eller de flesta internetbokhandlar. Här är beskrivningen av boken: Stanley Hauerwas (f. 1940) är idag en av USA:s mest inflytelserika teologer och etiker. Denna bok är på … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: Disrupting Time. Sermons, Prayers, and Sundries.

This book, as the subtitle suggests, contains more of Hauerwas’s non-academic writings, it consists mainly of sermons and more of the kind of prayers that made up Prayers Plainly Spoken. Of the sermons I find those held at weddings and … Fortsätt läsa

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Hauerwas’s Writings on the Church

In honor of Miika Tolonen who is defending his thesis Witness Is Presence. Reading Stanley Hauerwas in a Nordic Setting (yes, it is available online for free) today, here is a guide to Hauerwas’s writings on ecclesiology. Many would say … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: Truthfullness and Tragedy: Further Investigations in Christian Ethics

By this third book, in 1977, most of the Hauerwasian themes have started to appear and the form of the book is established. We get a some methodological articles, dealing mostly with ”story” as an ethical concept, some that deal … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: Vision and Virtue. Essays in Christian Ethical Reflection.

I have brought these essays together in the hope that they will prove to be useful for classes in Christian ethics. These essays develop a perspective that has been sadly lacking in much of recent Christian ethics. I wish, however, … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon: The Truth About God. The Ten Commandments in Christian Life.

This, of course, is a commentary to the ten commandments and as such it is probably ok. As with the other collaborations between Hauerwas and Willimon, one has the feeling that it is mostly Willimon that does the writing, with … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: Wilderness Wanderings. Probing Twentieth Century Theology and Philosophy.

The essays in this collection are all similar to each other in the sense that each one is an engagement with one particular theologian or philosopher. I guess this means that this is somewhat of a book for the ”experts”, … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas & Romand Coles: Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary.

We love the idea of these kinds of books don’t we? The concept of two intellectuals, from different backgrounds getting together and discussing important themes thoroughly enough to produce a book. When the two persons involved represent such particular traditions … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: The Peaceable Kingdom

”I suspect it is all ’there’ in The Peaceable Kingdom”, writes Hauerwas in Hannah’s Child. I suspect he is right, which is the reason that I still think this is Hauerwas’s most important book, almost 30 years after its publication. … Fortsätt läsa

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Stanley Hauerwas: A Cross-Shattered Church. Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching.

This is another book in the series ”Hauerwas turn to the Bible” (see Matthew, Cross-Shattered Christ). This book consists of 17 sermons and three appendices, of which the last one is particularly important: In ”Connecting the Dots, or An Attempt … Fortsätt läsa

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