Character and the Christian Life: A Study in Theological Ethics (Trinity University Monograph Series in Religion) - Softcover

Hauerwas, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268007721 ISBN 13: 9780268007720

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994

Synopsis

Some fourteen years after its initial publication, this important and influential book, with a new, substantial, and candid introduction by the author, is available in a reasonably priced paperback edition. In this volume Hauerwas assesses recent interest in the “ethics of character” and suggests areas in his own work that now call for some corrective and/or further work.

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About the Author

Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Suffering Presence (University of Notre Dame Press, 1986), Vision and Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), and is co-author of Christians Among the Virtues (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). His book A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic (University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), was selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century.

From the Back Cover

"Stanley Hauerwas's important and influential book, Character and the Christian Life, contains a substantial and candid introduction by the author. Hauerwas assesses recent interest in the 'ethics of character' and suggests areas in his own work that now call for some corrective and/or further work." --Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame

"[T]his is an important book. Christian ethics may or may not adopt Hauerwas's concept of 'character, ' but it certainly should take note of his radically different focus. Given the weakness of so much contemporary Christian ethics . . . it is surely significant that there are at last signs that the discipline may be entering fresh territory. If for that reason alone this book deserves to be read widely." --Scottish Journal of Theology

"[A] main road in American Christian ethics. Hauerwas's own pursuit of the continuities, rather than the discontinuities, of the moral life has taken him several stages further on, so that this welcome reissue enables us to look back over his development. Many of the characteristics of the mature Hauerwas are already evident: the mercurial imagination, the constant struggle for shifts in Gestalt, the involved arguments, the elusive claims, the persistent concern that philosophy and theology should meet." --Journal of Theological Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268007721
• ISBN 13: 9780268007720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272