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Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas (Hardcover)
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Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas (Hardcover)
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
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Stanley Hauerwas is arguably the most well-known figure in
theological ethics of the last generation. Having published
voluminously over the last 30 years, late in his career he has also
published two volumes of essays discussing his corpus
retrospectively, as well as a widely acclaimed memoir. The sheer
volume of his work can be daunting to readers, and it is easy to
get the impression that his retrospective volumes are restating
positions developed earlier. Brian Brock delves into Hauerwas'
formation as a theologian at Yale, his first book, Character and
the Christian Life, and examines some of his early, and outspoken,
criticisms of the guild of Christian ethics. This chapter is
followed by a discussion of his memoir, Hannah's Child, and raises
tricky questions about the role of autobiography in Christian
ethics, as well as the troubling problem of race in the modern
academy. Brock explores Hauerwas' work on disability, his
criticisms of the discipline of medical ethics, and the role played
by vulnerability in his work. The next chapter examines his views
on just war and pacifism, here probing the sensitive issue of the
role of gender in his work, and leading into a discussion on the
nature of the church's peaceable politics, in which his supposed
hyper-ecclesiocentricism is examined. Brock examines the role of
virtue in Hauerwas' thought, and teases out why he hates to be
called a virtue ethicist. A final chapter asks him to respond to
the recently levelled criticism that scripture does no work in his
theology, focusing especially on his under-appreciated commentary
on the gospel of Matthew. The editor of this volume has managed to
maneuver Hauerwas into positions where he has directly faced tricky
questions that he normally does not discuss, such as the accusation
that he is racist, too soft on Yoder, or misogynist.
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