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In this small but powerful book, renowned theologian Stanley
Hauerwas offers a moving reflection on Jesus's final words from the
cross. Touching in original and surprising ways on subjects such as
praying the Psalms and our need to be remembered by Jesus, Hauerwas
emphasizes Christ's humanity as well as the sheer "differentness"
of God. Ideal for personal devotion during Lent and throughout the
church year, this book offers a transformative reading of Jesus's
words that goes directly to the heart of the gospel. Now in
paperback.
What "don't" Christians believe? Is Jesus really divine? Is Jesus
really human? Can God suffer? Can people be saved by their own
efforts?
The early church puzzled over these questions, ruling in some
beliefs and ruling out others. "Heresies and How to Avoid Them"
explains the principal ancient heresies and shows why contemporary
Christians still need to know about them. These famous detours in
Christian believing seemed plausible and attractive to many people
in the past, and most can still be found in modern-day guises. By
learning what it is that Christians don't believe--and
why--believers today can gain a deeper, truer understanding of
their faith.
Two contemporary theologians, Samuel Wells and Stanley Hauerwas,
add their voices to the ongoing conversation about Christian life
in the twenty-first century. This third book in the In Conversation
series dives deeply into the theological and personal ideas and
motivations for the work of two prominent Christian thinkers.
Readers will discover their thoughts on the Trinity, parish
ministry, and non-violence, along with anecdotes and intimate
notions on marriage, family, and even baseball. Followers of
Wells's and Hauerwas's theological and homiletical work will find
out what has influenced them most, and where they'd like to go from
here. A fascinating read for Episcopalians and Anglicans, and those
who enjoyed the first two In Conversation books.
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
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This commentary brings the stimulating insights of world-renowned
theologian Stanley Hauerwas to the first Gospel. This volume, like
each in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed
to serve the church--through aid in preaching, teaching, study
groups, and so forth--and demonstrate the continuing intellectual
and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.
Sermons from one of the country's best-known theologians 17
sermons, from "Saints" and "Letting Go," to "Recognizing
Jesus/Seeing Salvation" and "Clothe Your Ministers in
Righteousness" Two bonus presentations on "Leadership" and "An Open
Letter to Christians Beginning College" in the appendix
A radical vision for a society transformed by the teachings and
spirit of Jesus. Do you feel powerless to change the injustice at
every level of society? Are you tired of answers that ignore the
root causes of human suffering? This selection of writings by
Eberhard Arnold, who left a career and the established church in
order to live out the gospel, calls us to a completely different
way. Be warned: Arnold doesn't approach discipleship as the route
to some benign religious fulfillment, but as a revolution-a
transformation that begins within and spreads outward to encompass
every aspect of life. Arnold writes in the same tradition of
radical obedience to the gospel as his contemporaries Karl Barth
and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered
tradition will it truly be the body of Christ and transform the
world. Twenty-five years after its first appearance, Resident
Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its
vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish
souls, and stand firmly against the illusions, pretensions, and
eroding values of today's world.
Resident Aliens discusses the nature of the church and its
relationship to surrounding culture. It argues that churches should
focus on developing Christian life and community rather than
attempting to reform secular culture. Stanley Hauerwas and William
H. Willimon reject the idea that America is a Christian nation;
instead, Christians should see themselves as "resident aliens" in a
foreign land. According to Hauerwas and Willimon, the role of
Christians is not totransform government but tolive lives that
model the love of Christ. Rather than try to convince others to
change their ethics, Christians should model a new set of ethics
that are grounded in the life, death, and resurrection of
Christ."
Recent conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf War of the 1990s and the
war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 show that the idea
of what constitutes a 'just war' remains a crucial issue in
politics and ethics today. With a new foreword by noted theologian
and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the
ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam
era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. In defending
just war against Christian pacifism and arguing against those who
maintain that the end justifies the means in the conduct of a war,
Ramsey joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its
antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Ramsey
argues that decisions regarding war must be governed by 'political
prudence.' Whether a particular war should be fought, and at what
level of violence, depends, Ramsey writes, on one's count of the
moral costs and benefits. Characterized by a sophisticated yet
back-to-basics approach, his analysis begins with the assumption
that force is a fact in political life which must either be
reckoned with or succumbed to. He then grapples with modern
challenges to traditional moral principles of 'just conduct' in
war, the 'morality of deterrence, ' and a 'just war theory of
statecraft.
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.
These essays reflect possibilities and practices of radical
democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of
relational care for the radical ordinary. Hauerwas and Coels point
out political and theological imaginations beyond the political
formations, which seems to be the declination and the production of
death. The authors call us to a revolutionary politics of 'wild
patience' that seeks transformation through attentive practices of
listening, relationship-building, and a careful tending to places,
common goods, and diverse possibilities for flourishing.
How did violence become OK? And is there any way back? At some
point between George Floyd's killing on May 25 and the invasion of
the US Capitol on January 6, America's consensus against political
violence crumbled. Before 2020, almost everyone agreed that it
should be out of bounds. Now, many are ready to justify such
violence - at least when it is their side breaking windows or
battling police officers. Something significant seems to have
slipped. Is there any way back? As Christians, we need to consider
what guilt we bear, with the rise of a decidedly unchristian
"Christian nationalism" that historically has deep roots in
American Christian culture. But shouldn't we also be asking
ourselves what a truly Christian stance might look like, one that
reflects Jesus' blessings on the peacemakers, the merciful, and the
meek? Oscar Romero, when accused of preaching revolutionary
violence, responded: "We have never preached violence, except the
violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross." If we take
Jesus' example and his call to nonviolence at face value, we're
left with all kinds of interesting questions: What about policing?
What about the military? What about participating in government?
This issue of Plough addresses some of these questions and explores
what a life lived according to love rather than violence might look
like. In this issue: - Anthony M. Barr revisits James Baldwin's
advice about undoing racism. - Gracy Olmstead describes welcoming
the baby she did not expect during a pandemic. - Patrick Tomassi
debates nonviolence with Portland's anarchists and Proud Boys. -
Scott Beauchamp advises on what not to ask war veterans. - Rachel
Pieh Jones reveals what Muslims have taught her about prayer. -
Eberhard Arnold argues that Christian nonviolence is more than
pacifism. - Stanley Hauerwas presents a vision of church you've
never seen in practice. - Andrea Grosso Ciponte graphically
portrays the White Rose student resistance to Nazism. - Zito Madu
illuminates rap's role in escaping the violence of poverty. -
Springs Toledo recounts his boxing match with an undefeated
professional. You'll also find: - An interview with poet Rhina P.
Espaillat - New poems by Catherine Tufariello - Profiles of
Anabaptist leader Felix Manz and community founder Lore Weber -
Reviews of Marly Youmans's Charis in the World of Wonders, Judith
D. Schwartz's The Reindeer Chronicles, Chris Lombardi's I Ain't
Marching Anymore, and Martin Espada's Floaters Plough Quarterly
features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their
faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles,
interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus'
message into practice and find common cause with others.
Living through an apocalyptic time, Swiss theologian Karl Barth
influenced Christianity in the twentieth century profoundly. He
publicly rejected Hitler's Nazism, advocated on behalf of workers
and laborers, and ministered to prisoners. Barth was named by Pope
Pius XII as "the greatest theologian since Thomas Aquinas" and in
1962 even appeared on the cover of Time magazine. In Fully Alive,
one of America's best and most provocative theologians, Stanley
Hauerwas, demonstrates that Barth's radical theological perspective
is particularly relevant and applicable to the challenges of our
own time. Hauerwas argues that Barth's engagements with the social
and political struggles of his day can help us see what it means to
be fully human in the twenty-first century. The ecclesiastical and
the political were inseparable for Barth; similarly, Hauerwas shows
why it is crucial for theological claims to produce insights that
make it possible for our lives to be well lived. Including chapters
on race, disability, and the church in Asia, Hauerwas shows how
Barth's political theology can be read as a training manual that
can help us maintain our humanity in a world in crisis.
"Living Well and Dying Faithfully" explores how Christian practices
-- love, prayer, lament, compassion, and so on -- can contribute to
the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the
way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue
between theology and medicine as offering two complementary modes
of care.
What does Jesus have to say about violence, just war, and killing?
Does Jesus ever want his disciples to kill in order to resist evil
and promote peace and justice? This book by noted theologian and
bestselling author Ronald J. Sider provides a career capstone
statement on biblical peacemaking. Sider makes a strong case for
the view that Jesus calls his disciples to love, and never kill,
their enemies. He explains that there are never only two options:
to kill or to do nothing in the face of tyranny and brutality.
There is always a third possibility: vigorous, nonviolent
resistance. If we believe that Jesus is Lord, then we disobey him
when we set aside what he taught about killing and ignore his
command to love our enemies. This thorough, comprehensive treatment
of a topic of perennial concern vigorously engages with the just
war tradition and issues a challenge to all Christians, especially
evangelicals, to engage in biblical peacemaking. The book includes
a foreword by Stanley Hauerwas.
Western culture and art were not born of unknown parents.
Christianity, while receiving its mother tongues and its first
canonical texts within Hebrew and Greco-Roman civilizations, has
provided its own major contributions to the art and culture of the
last two millennia. In this volume, scholars of international
reputation, clerics and lay, Catholic and Protestant have reflected
on how Christians have dialogued with diverse cultures and
religions, even as they forged directions unique to the Gospel.The
contributors of ""Christianity and the West"" scrutinize past
achievements in order to face the postmodern secularization of
western society and the globalization of communication, trade, and
travel that claim a right to experimentation, free from
long-standing values and detached from communities where the
quality of culture and art makes a difference. It is argued that
the creative manifestations of culture express the genius of human
agents, authors, and artists, but they find their acid test in
relationship with the flourishing of human persons and society.
However, a human social standard is assured by a divine one.
Culture risks becoming destructive when the aesthetic is severed
from sources of faith and reason about human origins and ends.In
order to face this risk, the present volume explores the
interaction between Christianity, art, and culture in the West,
especially in fine art and architecture, theatre and cinema,
literature and politics. It demonstrates that Christianity has
served as a living memory for humanity, above all, concerning the
unity of the physical and spiritual dimensions that constitute the
human person and culture.
Description: As an explicitly christological witness, martyrdom
offers a limited but vital description of the present within the
various and unpredictable arenas of living, suffering, and dying.
That is to say, martyrdom is not the tragic conclusion of some
fatal ideological conflict but a momentary truthful glimpse of
present circumstances. Martyrdom reveals, clarifies, and illumines
what we take for the real. Martyrs are therefore significant for
the church today because they exhibit the sort of truthful living
that refuses the claims of history and power without Christ; they
show the sort of living and dying that returns forgiveness upon
murder, and patience beyond domination. Meditating primarily on the
second-century martyrdoms in Lyons and Vienne, France, Pilgrim
Holiness offers a view of Christian martyrdom that challenges
prevalent misunderstandings about what martyrs are doing in
sacrificing their lives. Joshua J. Whitfield argues that martyrdom
is a moment of truthful disclosure and thus a moment of forgiveness
and peace--gifts for which we are in desperate need. Endorsements:
""In a time when critics of Christianity, and religion in general,
point to the practices of martyrs as examples of the inherently
irrational, violent, and dangerous character of religious devotion,
Whitfield challenges Christians to reconsider Christ's call to
""take up one's cross"" by suspending our suspicions and listening
to the stories of the martyrs in conversation with contemporary
theological voices such as Rowan Williams, Stanley Hauerwas, Sam
Wells, and others."" --J. Warren Smith Duke University ""We are not
superior or inferior to those who came before us, we are simply in
the same situation as them: called to bear witness--in our lives
and perhaps in our deaths--to the nonviolent truth embodied by
Jesus Christ. This book, which is steeped in the patristic martyr
narratives, unpacks this simple statement in skillful dialogue with
contemporary thought. Its goal is to show that the hoped-for unity
of Christians has no other plausible basis than peaceful imitation
of Christ."" --Charles K. Bellinger Brite Divinity School ""Joshua
Whitfield has concocted a perceptive and important antidote to the
secular politics of death-making. Insisting that martyrs die for
love of truth armed only with the power of description, Whitfield
stands against the acrimonious caricatures du jour by uncoupling
Christian martyrdom from power but not from truth. This book is a
clarion call to any church that has brokered an unholy trade-off in
producing members who would more readily kill than die."" --Craig
Hovey author of To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for
Today's Church ""In this erudite tome, Whitfield offers an account
of martyrdom that refuses the shackles of liberal secular politics.
Such refusal, however, is not rooted in a rejection of the world
and its attempts to regulate sacred narratives; rather, Whitfield
reminds us that its refusal is predicated on the eschatological
promise that God will bring all creation to completion. The witness
of the martyr, therefore, is not a discourse about the individual
agent; it is a discourse about the saving activity of the Triune
God."" --Tripp York author of The Purple Crown: The Politics of
Martyrdom About the Contributor(s): Joshua J. Whitfield is an
Anglican priest and rector of the Church of Saint Gregory the Great
in Mansfield, Texas.
These reflections on Jesus' final words from the cross open our
ears to the language of the Bible while opening our hearts to a
truer vision of God. Hauerwas touches in original and often
surprising ways on fundamental themes, emphasising both the
humanity of Jesus and the sheer 'differentness' of God. Ideal for
personal devotion during Lent and throughout the year,
Cross-Shattered Christ offers a transformative reading of Jesus'
words that goes directly to the heart of the gospel. This short
book is perhaps the most powerful and poignant ever written by the
man described by Time magazine as our 'greatest theologian'.
In the past half-century, few theologians have shaped the landscape
of American belief and practice as much as Stanley Hauerwas. His
work in social ethics, political theology, and ecclesiology has had
a tremendous influence on the church and society. But have we
understood Hauerwas's theology, his influences, and his place among
the theologians correctly? Hauerwas is often associated-and rightly
so-with the postliberal theological movement and its emphasis on a
narrative interpretation of Scripture. Yet he also claims to stand
within the theological tradition of Karl Barth, who strongly
affirmed the priority of Jesus Christ in all matters and famously
rejected Protestant liberalism. These are two rivers that seem to
flow in different directions. In this New Explorations in Theology
(NET) volume, theologian David Hunsicker offers a reevaluation of
Hauerwas's theology, arguing that he is both a postliberal and a
Barthian theologian. In so doing, Hunsicker helps us to understand
better both the formation and the ongoing significance of one of
America's great theologians. Featuring new monographs with
cutting-edge research, New Explorations in Theology provides a
platform for constructive, creative work in the areas of
systematic, historical, philosophical, biblical, and practical
theology.
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Christian Socialism (Hardcover)
Philip Turner; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
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