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After Christendom: How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas Kindle Edition

by Stanley Hauerwas (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Liberal/conservative and modern/postmodern concepts define contemporary theological debate. Yet what if these categories are grounded in a set of assumptions about what it means to be the church in the world, presuming we must live as though God's existence does not matter? What if our theological discussion distracts us from the fact that the church is no longer able to shape the desires and habits of Christians? Hauerwas wrestles with these and similar questions constructing a theological politics necessary for the church to be the church in the world. In so doing, he challenges liberal notions of justice and freedom.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AKJZ9IY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abingdon Press (July 1, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1013 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 206 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0687009294
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Stanley Hauerwas

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Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He has written a voluminous number of articles, authored and edited many books, and has been the subject of other theologians' writing and interest. He has been a board member of the Society of Christian Ethics, Associate Editor of a number of Christian journals and periodicals, and a frequent lecturer at campuses across the country.

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TS John
4.0 out of 5 stars christian development worker
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014
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Stanley once again does a great job pointing out the weaknesses of Constantinian Christianity and liberalism.

I did not care the for letter from a student at the end. I know Stanley included it to encourage those in the faith to be gracious and conscientious of the language we use among those outside the faith. But the letter's writer must admit that in condemning Christians for claiming Christ as the foundation for truth he is working from some unnamed, liberalist standard to arrive at this conclusion... and seems just as evangelical and "violent" in asserting it! A response from Hauerwas in order to call out this deception would have been helpful.
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Rodney Jay Buchanan
3.0 out of 5 stars Gotta love Stanley
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2010
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You have to love Stanley for his inimitable style and personality. I read a lot of theology (Moltmann, Brueggeman, etc.) and found this book confusing and contradictory at times. It certainly is not the easy read that Resident Aliens is. Hauerwas is long on analysis and short on prescribing any solution on how Christians are to live or what they are to do in a post-Christian culture. The new introduction has him apologizing at length for this. But it would have been better to add a chapter which helps us to set a new course.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very stimulating discussion of the need for the Church to ...
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Very stimulating discussion of the need for the Church to "be the Church" rather than collude with the assumptions of the scientific and post-modern paradigms.
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Brilliant and inspirational.
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