Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and
the study of literature, "Love and Good Reasons" demonstrates ways
of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz
Oehlschlaeger argues for the study of literature as a training
ground for the kinds of thinking on which moral reasoning depends.
He challenges methods of doing ethics that attempt to specify
universally binding principles or rules and argues for the need to
bring literature back into conversation with the most basic
questions about how we should live.
"Love and Good Reasons "combines postliberal narrative
theology--especially Stanley Hauerwas's Christian ethics and
Alasdair MacIntyre's idea of traditional inquiry--with recent
scholarship in literature and ethics including the work of Martha
Nussbaum, J. Hillis Miller, Wayne Booth, Jeffrey Stout, and Richard
Rorty. Oehlschlaeger offers detailed readings of literature by five
major authors--Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope,
Henry James, and Stephen Crane. He examines their works in light of
biblical scripture and the grand narratives of Israel, Jesus, and
the Church. Discussing the role of religion in contemporary higher
education, Oehlschlaeger shares his own experiences of teaching
literature from a religious perspective at a state
university.
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