Dispatches from the Front : Theological Engagements with the Secular Paperback / softback
by Stanley Hauerwas
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/1995
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- ISBN:9780822317166
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822317166
