Hauerwas / Berkman / Cartwright The Hauerwas Reader

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8036-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 748 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hauerwas, Stanley

Berkman, John

Cartwright, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Part I: Editorial Introductions

John Berkman, An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader 3

William Cavanaugh, Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a completely Unobjective Person 17

Part II: Reframing Theological Ethics

Who Are Christians? The Christian Story

1. How "Christian Ethics" Came to Be (1997) 37

2. On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983) 51

3. A Retrospective Assessment of an "Ethics of Character": The Development of Hauerwas's Theological Project (1985, 2001) 75

4. Why the "Sectarian Temptation" Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988) 90

5. Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981) 111

6. Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983) 116

7. The Church as God's New Language (1986) 142

What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship

8. Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001) 165

9. A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981) 171

10. Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich, with David B. Burrell (1974) 200

11. Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980) 221

12. The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship is Required (1993) 255

13. Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995) 267

How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified

14. Courage Exemplified, with Charles Pinches (1993) 287

15. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992) 307

16. Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985) 318

17. Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981) 327

18. Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick, with Charles Pinches (1997) 348

Part III: New Intersections in Theological Ethics

The Church's Witness: Christian Ethics after "Public Theology"

19. The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983) 371

20. Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984) 392

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) 426

22. A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986) 459

23. Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It (1978) 481

24. The Radical Hope in the Annunciation: Why Both Single and Married Christians Welcome Children (1998) 505

25. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993) 519

26. Christianity: It's Not a Religion, It's an Adventure (1991) 522

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

27. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985) 539

28. Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984) 556

29. Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia, with Richard Bondi (1976) 577

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) 596

31. Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991) 603

Michael G. Cartwright, Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide 623

Selected Annotated Bibliography 673

Scripture References 699

Name Index 701

Subject Index 709

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics in the School of Divinity and Professor of Law at Duke University. In addition to having published over three hundred scholarly articles to date, he is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy, and Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics.John Berkman is Assistant Professor of Theology at The Catholic University of America. Michael G. Cartwright is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Indianapolis.
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics in the School of Divinity and Professor of Law at Duke University. In addition to having published over three hundred scholarly articles to date, he is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy, and Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics.John Berkman is Assistant Professor of Theology at The Catholic University of America. Michael G. Cartwright is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Indianapolis.