Kategoriarkiv: Hauerwas

I am really bad at reading this kind of books, that is slow meditative reading. (I read it in roughly two hours.) So I am in no way the right person to discuss this book, I can merely describe it, … Fortsätt läsa →

Note: Also published as God, Mediciene, and the Problem of Suffering. This book contains in essence Hauerwas very particular argument about medicine and medical ethics. It is a powerful book, it uses child leukemia at a time when it was … Fortsätt läsa →

This small book is nothing like any other Hauerwas book. It consists of prayers Hauerwas has written to be prayed before class in his ethics course. Hauerwas tells the story in Hannah’s child: Sometimes Paula reminds me what I am … Fortsätt läsa →

This, Hauerwas’s other 2011 book, is more tightly focused than Working with Words, which means that if you are interested in those questions, war and (american) nationalism, you’ll find this book important whereas if not, you won’t. I prefered Working … Fortsätt läsa →

Stanley kids Will, saying that Will never had an unpublished thought – and that most of the good one’s are Hauerwas’s. Will’s retort is that nobody would have heard any of Stanley’s thoughts had it not been for Will’s superior … Fortsätt läsa →