Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that
Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for
whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians
that finds itself at once comfortably ?at home? yet oddly fettered
and irrelevant in America, Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary
Christians to reimagine what it might mean to ?break back into
Christianity? in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the
myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked, a
more urgent constructive task remains; namely, discerning what it
may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the
twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions.
Ironically, reclaiming the church's identity and mission may
require relinquishing its purported ?gains??which often amount to
little more than a sense of comfort, the seduction of feeling ?at
ease in Zion?? to take up again the risk and adventure of life ?on
the way.? Accordingly, this book gives no comfort to the religious
right or left, which continues to think Christianity can be made
compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism.Such
a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or
in a reconstituted Christendom, but rather must develop within its
own life the patient, attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At
least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better
chance of noticing the changing directions of God's leading. The
wilderness, therefore, ought not to appear to contemporary
Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility
but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit, but
also the rigorous discipline, of faithful itinerancy. At such a
crucial time as this, Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the
insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place
called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards
characteristic of people called out, set apart, and led by God.
Wilderness Wanderings is a clarion call for Christians to
relinquish the impermanent citizenship of a home that can never be
the church's final resting place and confidently take up a course
of life the horizons of which are as wide and expansive as the God
who promises to lead.The book engages, often quite critically, with
major theological and philosophical figures, such as Reinhold
Niebuhr, Martha Nussbaum, Jeff Stout, Tristram Engelhardt, Iris
Murdoch, John Milbank, and Martin Luther King Jr. These
interrogations illumine why theology must reclaim its own politics
and ethics. Intent on avoiding abstraction, Hauerwas intervenes in
current debates around medicine, the culture wars, and race.
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