Dispatches from the front : theological engagements with the secular

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Dispatches from the front : theological engagements with the secular

Stanley Hauerwas

Duke University Press, 1995, c1994

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"First printing in paperback, 1995"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwas-and there is plenty-no one has ever accused him of being boring, and in this book he delivers another jolt to all those who think that Christian theology is a matter of indifference to our secular society. At once Christian theology and social criticism, this book aims to show that the two cannot be separated. In this spirit, Hauerwas mounts a forceful attack on current sentimentalities about the significance of democracy, the importance of the family, and compassion, which appears here as a literally fatal virtue. In this time of the decline of religious knowledge, when knowing a little about a religion tends to do more harm than good, Hauerwas offers direction to those who would make Christian discourse both useful and truthful. Animated by a deep commitment, his essays exhibit the difference that Christian theology can make in the shaping of lives and the world.

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Preface 1 Introduction / Positioning: In the Church and University But Not of Either 5 Part I. Behind the Lines 1. Constancy and Forgiveness: The Novel as a School for Virtue 31 2. On Honor: By Way of a Comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope 58 3. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance 80 Part II. Engagements 4. The Democratic Policing of Christianity 91 5. Creation as Apocalyptic: A Tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell 107 6. Can a Pacifist Think About War? 116 7. Whose "Just" War? Which Peace? 136 8. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) 153 9. Communitarians and Medical Ethicists: Or, "Why I Am None of the Above" 156 10. Killing Compassion 164 11. The Church and the Mentally Handicapped: A Continuing Challenge to the Imagination 177 Notes 187 Index 233

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