| A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity Contributor(s): Hauerwas, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1587430002 ISBN-13: 9781587430008 Publisher: Brazos Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: A Leading Theologian Reflects on the Challenges of the American Church |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Ethics |
| Dewey: 261.097 |
| LCCN: 00-56426 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 8.98" (1.00 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Theometrics - Evangelical - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With A Better Hope, he concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith, "since Christians cannot afford to let ourselves be defined by what we are against. Whatever or whomever we are against, we are so only because God has given us so much to be for." Hauerwas here crystallizes and extends profound criticisms of America, liberalism, capitalism, and postmodernism, but also identifies unlikely allies (such as Chicago Archbishop Francis Cardinal George) and locates surprising resources for Christian survival (such as mystery novels). Interlocutors along the way include Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and, in a significant and previously unpublished essay, social gospeller Walter Rauschenbusch. Never boring and often telling, A Better Hope demonstrates how a thinker so often accused of being "tribal" and "sectarian" is at the same time one of few contemporary theologians read not just by other theologians, but by political scientists, philosophers, medical ethicists, law professors, and literary theorists. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hauerwas, Stanley: - Stanley Hauerwas (PhD, Yale University) professor emeritus of divinity and law at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of over forty books, including Cross-Shattered Christ, A Cross-Shattered Church, War and the American Difference, and Matthew in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible. |