{"id":456,"date":"2011-12-08T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/?p=456"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:44:58","slug":"stanley-hauerwas-a-community-of-character-toward-a-constructive-christian-social-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/2011\/12\/08\/stanley-hauerwas-a-community-of-character-toward-a-constructive-christian-social-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Hauerwas: A Community of Character. Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This is the first book where all the central Hauerwasian themes are more or less in place. It is also the first book I would not hesitate to call a modern classic. In many ways it could be considered the more scholarly and theologically complex older sibling of A Peaceable Kingdom<\/em><\/a>, which, after all, is supposed to be a textbook.<\/p>\n

Hauerwas here deepens his view of narrative, and the themes of church and the liberal state are treated thoroughly for the first time. The book opens with what I think is Hauerwas best text, hands down, ”A Story Formed Community: Reflection on Watership Down<\/em>” Ok, so I do love the novel it discusses, but it is extremely well written. I have used it in class several times and it always opens up discussion extremely well.<\/p>\n

Many of the texts here are found in the Reader<\/a> <\/em>as well, but it still has a value as a whole, as this is the book that perhaps best reflects Hauerwas’s postion in its early form. Especially the themes of marriage, sex and family<\/a>, as well as abortion, get their most thorough treatments here. The discussion of these questions (that usually are considered ”private”) serve to demonstrate the public nature of Christian convictions.<\/p>\n

Contents:<\/p>\n

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  1. A Story Formed Community: Reflection on Watership Down<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Jesus: The Story of the Kingdom<\/li>\n
  3. The Moral Authority of Scripture: The Politics and Ethics of Remembering<\/li>\n
  4. The Church and Liberal Democracy: The Moral Limits of a Secular Polity<\/li>\n
  5. The Church in a Divided World: The Interpretative Power of the Christian Story<\/li>\n
  6. The Virtues and Our Communities: Human Nature as History<\/li>\n
  7. Character, Narrative and Growth in the Christian Life<\/li>\n
  8. The Moral Value of the Family<\/li>\n
  9. The Family: Theological and Ethical Reflections<\/li>\n
  10. Sex in Public: Toward a Christian Ethic of Sex<\/li>\n
  11. Why Abortion Is a Religious Issue<\/li>\n
  12. Abortion: Why the Arguments Fail<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Amazon<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

    Back to the Hauerwas Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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