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OverviewAgainst the Nations is Stanley Hauerwas's most wide-ranging and sustained effort to develop a uniquely Christian ethic. The book moves from such general themes as ""Keeping Theological Ethics Theological"" and ""Keeping Theological Ethics Imaginative"" to the application of these themes to such diverse topics as the Holocaust, Jonestown, the reality of the Kingdom, the reality of the Church, the democratic state, nuclear war, and disarmament. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stanley HauerwasPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780268204068ISBN 10: 0268204063 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 15 January 2022 Recommended Age: From 15 to 11 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAgainst the Nations is vintage Hauerwas: thoughtful, provocative and always challenging. . . . The strength of this book is precisely this call to Christian faithfulness. Hauerwas has reminded us of the dangers of accommodation to the fashions of the world: his book is a call for a bold Christian moral witness. -Transformation These essays-on matters as diverse as theological method, nuclear disarmament, pacifism, the Holocaust, and the Jonestown suicides-are united by a gracious alienation which enables their author to flush out and rough up many of the dogmas of sectarian secularism. -Commonweal Hauerwas defends his pacifist position against the best of the just-war tradition. As a postliberal theologian in a post-Christian age, Hauerwas intentionally avoids making universal pacifist claims, preferring to debate with Christian realists and just-war theorists . . . who offer the strongest challenge to pacifism. Hauerwas insists that Christian ethics and the Church must proceed from the Gospel's message of peace, and not from natural law or liberal theology. Hauerwas's unusual strength as a pacifist is his willingness to confront squarely the political reality of the world in its most destructive forms (Holocaust, nuclear annihilation, Jonestown). -Choice ""Against the Nations is vintage Hauerwas: thoughtful, provocative and always challenging. . . . The strength of this book is precisely this call to Christian faithfulness. Hauerwas has reminded us of the dangers of accommodation to the fashions of the world: his book is a call for a bold Christian moral witness."" —Transformation ""These essays—on matters as diverse as theological method, nuclear disarmament, pacifism, the Holocaust, and the Jonestown suicides—are united by a gracious alienation which enables their author to flush out and rough up many of the dogmas of sectarian secularism."" —Commonweal ""Hauerwas defends his pacifist position against the best of the just-war tradition. As a postliberal theologian in a post-Christian age, Hauerwas intentionally avoids making universal pacifist claims, preferring to debate with Christian realists and just-war theorists . . . who offer the strongest challenge to pacifism. Hauerwas insists that Christian ethics and the Church must proceed from the Gospel's message of peace, and not from natural law or liberal theology. Hauerwas's unusual strength as a pacifist is his willingness to confront squarely the political reality of the world in its most destructive forms (Holocaust, nuclear annihilation, Jonestown)."" —Choice Author InformationStanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of Vision and Virtue and Community of Character and co-author of Christians Among the Virtues, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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