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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.
Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle
the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining
both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as
reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the
church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about
dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian
attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those
qualities. She studies the rhetoric and thought of Christian
thinkers, beggar saints, and economists from throughout history,
placing greatest emphasis on the life and work of Peter Maurin, a
cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement. Challenging and
thought-provoking, The Fear of Beggars will move Christian economic
ethics into a richer, more involved discussion.
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