Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics by Stanley M. Hauerwas ISBN: 0-268-01554-6 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: September, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A viable ethic for our post-ethics era.
Comment: For four weeks I resisted the professor who had assigned Hauerwas; I battled Hauerwas on narrative's value and on his "obvious" lack of appreciation for the Brothers Niebuhr. I'd take Augustine's "just war" or Mouw's Divine Command ethics any day. Then it happened. I started doing ethics in the middle; I pitched three fourths of Kant and most of the consequentialists. I saw peace as the singular Christ trait, and I was ashamed and penitent. I read on through more and more Hauerwas to find how to "do church" as just such an authentic--albeit alien community. I don't know if I'm ready to walk over hot coals to march on Kosavo, but if Hauerwas left, I'd follow. To read Hauerwas changes Christians. Others probably won't "get" him because it takes a hefty amount of divine intervention to trust God that much. In the year since I first read this book I have had to re-think and/or re-tool everything about being a Christian. This is authentic Christianity--not the accommodationist Warrior-Christianity of Constantine, Belfast and Belgrade--and dare I say most American "chump-morality" preaching. Go ahead, fight with Hauerwas. I double dare ya! Watch the tools of peaceableness metamorphose you. I know.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you want to understand Hauerwas, this is the book to read
Comment: This book is the best introduction to "Christianity according to Hauerwas." This is not a general survery of different ideas about Christian ethics. But rather a presentation of a distinct way of doing "Christian ethics" (which really means a distinct way of doing Christianity). Hauerwas rejects both "liberal" and "conservative" versions of Christianity because both are ultimately based in the thought patterns of the classical Liberalism, which falsely presents itself as religion based on universal reason. In reality, all reason and religion is based on particular truth claims, embodied in the narratives that shape different communities. Hauerwas presents the truth of the Christian narrative, emphasizing how it must be embodied in the Church, if any one is ever to see that it is true. Particularly important in the demonstation of Christian truth claims is the Church's commitment to peace (a very particular form of Christian non-violence). To grasp the significance of what Hauerwas is saying in this book, is to have commonly accepted understandings of the Church and Christian "ethics" radically challenged, and possibly to have them replaced by a wonderfully compelling account of what it means to be a Christian.
 |
Title: The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster by John Howard Yoder ISBN: 0802807348 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
 |
Title: The Hauerwas Reader by John Berkman, Stanley M. Hauerwas, Michael G. Cartwright ISBN: 0822326914 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
 |
Title: Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by William H. Willimon, Stanley M. Hauerwas ISBN: 0687361591 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
 |
Title: A Community of Character by Stanley M. Hauerwas ISBN: 0268007357 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
 |
Title: The Moral Vision of the New Testament : Community, Cross, New CreationA Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethic by Richard Hays ISBN: 006063796X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 04 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
