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- catalog abstract "God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwas--and there is plenty--no one has ever accused him of being boring, and in this book he delivers another jolt to all those who think that Christian theology is a matter of indifference to our secular society. At once Christian theology and social criticism, this book aims to show that the two cannot be separated. In this spirit, Hauerwas mounts a forceful attack on current sentimentalities about the significance of democracy, the importance of the family, and compassion, which appears here as a literally fatal virtue. In this time of the decline of religious knowledge, when knowing a little about a religion tends to do more harm than good, Hauerwas offers direction to those who would make Christian discourse both useful and truthful. Animated by a deep commitment, his essays exhibit the difference that Christian theology can make in the shaping of lives and the world.".
- catalog contributor b5577233.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwas--and there is plenty--no one has ever accused him of being boring, and in this book he delivers another jolt to all those who think that Christian theology is a matter of indifference to our secular society. At once Christian theology and social criticism, this book aims to show that the two cannot be separated. In this spirit, Hauerwas mounts a forceful attack on current sentimentalities about the significance of democracy, the importance of the family, and compassion, which appears here as a literally fatal virtue. In this time of the decline of religious knowledge, when knowing a little about a religion tends to do more harm than good, Hauerwas offers direction to those who would make Christian discourse both useful and truthful. Animated by a deep commitment, his essays exhibit the difference that Christian theology can make in the shaping of lives and the world.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Positioning: In the church and university but not of either -- Constancy and forgiveness: The novel as a school for virtue -- On honor: By way of a comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope -- Why truthfulness requires forgiveness: A commencement address for graduates of a college of the church of the second chance -- The democratic policing of Christianity -- Creation as apocalyptic: A tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell -- Can a pacifist think about war? -- Whose "just" war? Which peace? -- Why gays (as a group) are morally superior to Christians (as a group) -- Communitarians and medical ethicists: Or, "why I am none of the above" -- Killing compassion -- The church and the mentally handicapped: A continuing challenge to the imagination.".
- catalog extent "235 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dispatches from the front.".
- catalog identifier "0822314754".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dispatches from the front.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Dispatches from the front.".
- catalog subject "261 20".
- catalog subject "BT738 .H32 1994".
- catalog subject "Christian sociology.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and politics.".
- catalog subject "Church and social problems.".
- catalog subject "Church and the world.".
- catalog subject "Forgiveness Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism (Religion)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Positioning: In the church and university but not of either -- Constancy and forgiveness: The novel as a school for virtue -- On honor: By way of a comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope -- Why truthfulness requires forgiveness: A commencement address for graduates of a college of the church of the second chance -- The democratic policing of Christianity -- Creation as apocalyptic: A tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell -- Can a pacifist think about war? -- Whose "just" war? Which peace? -- Why gays (as a group) are morally superior to Christians (as a group) -- Communitarians and medical ethicists: Or, "why I am none of the above" -- Killing compassion -- The church and the mentally handicapped: A continuing challenge to the imagination.".
- catalog title "Dispatches from the front : theological engagements with the secular / Stanley Hauerwas.".
- catalog type "text".