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Unsettling Arguments (Hardcover)
Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, Charles M. Collier
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Contributors: Scott Bader-Saye Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Michael Baxter Daniel M. Bell Jr. Jana Marguerite Bennett Michael
G. Cartwright William T. Cavanaugh Peter Dula Chris K. Huebner
Kelly S. Johnson D. Stephen Long M. Therese Lysaught David Matzko
McCarthy Joel James Shuman J. Alexander Sider Jonathan Tran Paul J.
Wadell Theodore Walker Jr. Endorsements: "Good arguments sustain
good friendships, and this volume bears witness to the
extraordinary friendships that Hauerwas and his students have been
drawn into. Yes, there's gratitude and devotion here, but it's the
criticisms that stand out, that make this a particularly feisty
festschrift. His dependence on Yoder runs afoul of his devotion to
Aristotle. He domesticates Wittgenstein's skepticism in order to
discount his own individualism. He misconstrues the church as
polis, makes a mess of practical reason, and gives metaphysics
short shrift. He bungles the relationship between disability and
grace, misunderstands how liturgy affects the moral life, and runs
rough shod over the just war tradition. He is not yet a pacifist He
is an heir of the liberalism he despises And he's a lousy dresser
to boot Those concerned that Hauerwas's talk of tradition,
community, and virtue encourages slavish emulation of authorities
and exemplars will find little evidence of that here. Rather, what
we find is appreciation mixed with complaint, confidence leavened
with doubt, and loyalty expressed in conversation. That we might
all have such students, such friends " --John Bowlin Princeton
Theological Seminary "Stanley Hauerwas is a public provocateur, a
ravenous reader, a restless wrestler with the truth, and an
eccentric devotee of baseball, murder mysteries, and
liturgically-shaped discipleship. But most of all is he is a
devoted, demanding, and dogged academic father to dozens of
doctoral students. The breadth of his character takes a community
to display. Here, more than ever before, that community of
character does in public what Hauerwas and his students do best:
tussle, and refine, and introduce new interlocutors, and dismiss
out of hand, and rephrase more charitably, and rediscover ancient
wisdom, and go back to Aquinas, and quote Barth, and dismantle
platitudes, and unsentimentally face the gift and demands of Christ
for church, academy, and politics today. This is a work of love
turned into a call to renewal, a family reunion transformed into a
symposium, a tribute in the guise of a challenge. Admirers and
critics of Hauerwas will be enriched by these compelling essays, an
ordered array of disagreements in love." --Sam Wells Dean of the
Chapel, Duke University Author Biography: Charles Pinches is Chair
of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the
University of Scranton.
We live in a forgetful age, and our collective memory loss can be
dangerous. In this intriguing book, Charles Pinches examines the
nature of true memory as it appears in family, nation, and church,
the three structures that preside over memory's territory. He takes
a look at the power of memory in a fallen world, shining light on
both the lies that disconnect us and the solution to the problem.
Pinches deftly shows how memory is tied to community and ultimately
to God. Pastors, lay leaders, and readers in the emerging church
movement will appreciate this clear exploration of how memory works
to make us human.
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