Stanley Hauerwas: 29 books
A Cross-Shattered Church
Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In this work, eminent theologian Stanley Hauerwas shows how the sermon is the best context for doing good theology. He writes, "I am convinced that the recovery of the sermon as the context for theological reflection is crucial if Christians are to negotiate the world in which we find ourselves."...
The Peaceable Kingdom
A Primer in Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1991
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the necessity...
War and the American Difference
Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
How are American identity and America's presence in the world shaped by war, and what does God have to do with it? Esteemed theologian Stanley Hauerwas helps readers reflect theologically on war, church, justice, and nonviolence in this compelling volume, exploring issues such as how America depends...
by Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This commentary brings the stimulating insights of world-renowned theologian Stanley Hauerwas to the first Gospel. This volume, like each in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed to serve the church--through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth--and demonstrate...
With the Grain of the Universe
The Church's Witness and Natural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This major work by one of the world's top theologians offers a provocative and closely argued perspective on natural theology. Stanley Hauerwas shows how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which...
Performing the Faith
Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq--more than ever, this is a time for the church to be taking up the question of what, as Christians, our response to violence should be.
In Performing the Faith, Stanley Hauerwas revisits the familiar territory of political nonviolence through discussion of the writings...
A Community of Character
Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991
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...
Working with Words
On Learning to Speak Christian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The crucial challenge for theology is that when it is read the reader thinks, This is true. Recognizing claims that are true enables readers to identify an honest expression of life's complexities. The trick is to show that theological claims--the words that must be used to speak of God--are necessary...
In Good Company
The Church as Polis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1995
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
by Jerry G. Gaff, Samuel Schuman, Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This new, revised, and expanded edition of the popular Academic’s Handbook is an essential guide for those planning or beginning an academic career.
Faculty members, administrators, and professionals with experience at all levels of higher education offer candid, practical advice to help...
by Stanley Hauerwas, William H. Willimon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Do you realize what baptism really means? Through the Holy Spirit we become part of the Body of Christ! The work of the Spirit is often thought of as “inspirational,” but it’s more than a personal experience and this book challenges some of those individualistic and subjectivist accounts. You’ll...
After Christendom
How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
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...
The Truth About God
The Ten Commandments in Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Two popular authors consider not only what the Ten Commandments say about the people who observe them, but what they say about God. They are not some set of universal rules-they simply offer ways for a certain people to know a certain God-our God. What truths about God can be known through the Ten...
Character and the Christian Life
A Study in Theological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1989
“When Character and the Christian Life first appeared in 1975, it was the most important theological contribution to moral debate to appear for many years. Hauerwas followed Catholic moral theology in making the theory of the virtues a topic for argument between secular and Christian moralities;...