Stanley Hauerwas: 29 books
by Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today. A prolific lecturer and author, he has been at the forefront of key developments in contemporary theology, ranging from narrative theology to the “recovery of virtue.” Yet despite his prominence and the esteem...
by Stanley Hauerwas, Dr Brian Brock
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Stanley Hauerwas is arguably the most well-known figure in theological ethics of the last generation. Having published voluminously over the last 30 years, late in his career he has also published two volumes of essays discussing his corpus retrospectively, as well as a widely acclaimed memoir. The...
by Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
A "how-to" book on theology from a world-renowned theologian
In this book Stanley Hauerwas returns to the basics of "doing" theology. Revisiting some of his earliest philosophical and theological views to better understand and clarify what he has said before, Hauerwas explores...
Minding the Web
Making Theological Connections
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life's work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections necessary for the church to bear faithful witness to...
Sanctify them in the Truth
Holiness Exemplified
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In Sanctify them in the Truth Stanley Hauerwas provides an overview of the development of theology and ethics. He considers how the two disciplines interrelate, discusses the nature of sin, how any account of sin requires a more determinative account of moral law, the nature of sanctification, the...
Dispatches from the Front
Theological Engagements with the Secular
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1994
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...
The Character of Virtue
Letters to a Godson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Timeless wisdom from a renowned theologian on living well
From the fairy godmother’s pumpkin coach to Herr Drosselmeyer’s nutcracker, godparents have long been associated with good gifts. But in The Character of Virtue theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas offers his real-life godson...
Living Gently in a Violent World
The Prophetic Witness of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church has much to learn from an often-overlooked community—those with disabilities. In this fascinating...
Approaching the End
Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In this book Stanley Hauerwas explores the significance of eschatological reflection for helping the church negotiate the contemporary world.
In Part One, "Theological Matters," Hauerwas directly addresses his understanding of the eschatological character of the Christian faith. In...
Cross-Shattered Christ
Meditations on the Seven Last Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
In Cross-Shattered Christ, theologian Stanley Hauerwas offers a moving reflection on Jesus's final words from the cross. This small and powerful volume is theologically poignant and steeped in humility. Hauerwas's pithy discussion opens our ears to the language of Scripture while opening our hearts...
Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary. They seek to shift political...
Wilderness Wanderings
Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
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...
A Better Hope
Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
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,...
Resident Aliens
Life in the Christian Colony (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
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 publishing, Resident Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity...