The Hauerwas Reader

by Hauerwas, Stanley; Cartwright, Michael G.; Berkman, John

• ISBN13: 9780822326809
• ISBN10: 0822326809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This collection is obviously a labor of love. Fortunately, it is also a labor of editorial care and precision. In addition to first-rate introductory material, the writings of a master provocateur are gathered here in a fresh, synthetic format. Re-reading these essays was humbling."--Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART I: Editorial Introductions
An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader	3	(14)
John Berkman
Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person	17	(20)
William Cavanaugh
PART II: Reframing Theological Ethics
Who Are Christians? The Christian Story
How ``Christian Ethics'' Came to Be (1997)	37	(14)
On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983)	51	(24)
A Retrospective Assessment of an ``Ethics of Character'': The Development of Hauerwas's Theological Project (1985, 2001)	75	(15)
Why the ``Sectarian Temptation'' Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988)	90	(21)
Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981)	111	(5)
Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983)	116	(26)
The Church as God's New Language (1986)	142	(23)
What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship
Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001)	165	(6)
A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981)	171	(29)
Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich, with David B. Burrell (1974)	200	(21)
Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980)	221	(34)
The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship Is Required (1993)	255	(12)
Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995)	267	(20)
How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified
Courage Exemplified, with Charles Pinches (1993)	287	(20)
Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992)	307	(11)
Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985)	318	(9)
Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981)	327	(21)
Praticing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick, with Charles Pinches (1997)	348	(23)
PART III: New Intersections in Theological Ethics
The Church's Witness: Christian Ethics after ``Public Theology''
The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983)	371	(21)
Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984)	392	(34)
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	(33)
A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986)	459	(22)
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	(14)
Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993)	519	(3)
Christianity: It's Not a Religion, It's an Adventure (1991)	522	(17)
The Church's Hospitality: Christian Ethics after ``Medical Ethics''
Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985)	539	(17)
Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984)	556	(21)
Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia, with Richard Bondi (1976)	577	(19)
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	(7)
Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991)	603	(70)
Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide	623	(50)
Michael G. Cartwright
Selected Annotated Bibliography	673
Scripture References
Name Index
Subject Index