A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social EthicSelected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century. Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly tell the stories of God. He challenges the dominant assumption of contemporary Christian social ethics that there is a special relation between Christianity and some form of liberal democratic social system. |
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... reason has been conjectured as the basis for our historicity because it alone gives us the power to act . But as Bernard Williams has suggested , claims that rationality is the distinguishing mark of man tend to acquire a Manichean ...
... reason has been conjectured as the basis for our historicity because it alone gives us the power to act . But as Bernard Williams has suggested , claims that rationality is the distinguishing mark of man tend to acquire a Manichean ...
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... reason and the reason of the passions involved in any account of virtue are an indication of our historical nature.55 Just as history cannot be separated from the natural , since nature is the very stuff of history , neither can reason ...
... reason and the reason of the passions involved in any account of virtue are an indication of our historical nature.55 Just as history cannot be separated from the natural , since nature is the very stuff of history , neither can reason ...
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... reason . Thus Kant says , " The living faith in the archetype of humanity well - pleasing to God ( in the Son of God ) is bound up , in itself , with a moral idea of reason so far as this serves us not only as a guide - line but also as ...
... reason . Thus Kant says , " The living faith in the archetype of humanity well - pleasing to God ( in the Son of God ) is bound up , in itself , with a moral idea of reason so far as this serves us not only as a guide - line but also as ...
Contents
Reflections | 9 |
The Story of the Kingdom | 36 |
The Politics | 53 |
Copyright | |
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A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic Stanley Hauerwas Limited preview - 1991 |
Consciousness and Transcendence: Theology Stanley Hauerwas,Michael P. Morrissey No preview available - 1981 |
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