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Title

Hauerwas : a (very) critical introduction / Nicholas M. Healy.

Author

Healy, Nicholas M.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.

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Details

Description

xii, 142 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most important and robustly creative theologians of our time, and his work is well known and much admired. But Nicholas Healy -- himself an admirer of Hauerwas?s thought -- believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustained critical analysis that is warranted by such a significant and influential Christian thinker. As someone interested in the broader systematic-theological implications of Hauerwas's work, Healy fills that gap in Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction. After a general introduction to Hauerwas's work, Healy examines three main areas of his thought: his method, his social theory, and his theology. According to Healy, Hauerwas's overriding concern for ethics and church-based apologetics so dominates his thinking that he systematically distorts Christian doctrine. Healy illustrates what he sees as the deficiencies of Hauerwas's theology and argues that it needs substantial revision.

Series Statement

Interventions

Uniform Title

Interventions (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Subject

• Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
• Hauerwas, Stanley 1940-
• Theologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reading Hauerwas; reading this book -- The church, the center -- An ecclesiocentric method -- The empirical church and Christian identity -- Hauerwas's theology.

ISBN

• 9780802825995 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0802825990 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2013045279
• 40023882154

OCLC

• 867769695
• SCSB-11571715

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library