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Dispatches from the front : theological engagements with the secular / Stanley Hauerwas.

By: Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994Description: 235 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0822314754Subject(s): Christian sociology | Forgiveness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Liberalism (Religion) | Christianity Related to SociologyDDC classification: 261 LOC classification: BT738 | .H32 1994
Contents:
Positioning: In the church and university but not of either -- Constancy and forgiveness: The novel as a school for virtue -- On honor: By way of a comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope -- Why truthfulness requires forgiveness: A commencement address for graduates of a college of the church of the second chance -- The democratic policing of Christianity -- Creation as apocalyptic: A tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell -- Can a pacifist think about war? -- Whose "just" war? Which peace? -- Why gays (as a group) are morally superior to Christians (as a group) -- Communitarians and medical ethicists: Or, "why I am none of the above" -- Killing compassion -- The church and the mentally handicapped: A continuing challenge to the imagination.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-231) and index.

Positioning: In the church and university but not of either -- Constancy and forgiveness: The novel as a school for virtue -- On honor: By way of a comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope -- Why truthfulness requires forgiveness: A commencement address for graduates of a college of the church of the second chance -- The democratic policing of Christianity -- Creation as apocalyptic: A tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell -- Can a pacifist think about war? -- Whose "just" war? Which peace? -- Why gays (as a group) are morally superior to Christians (as a group) -- Communitarians and medical ethicists: Or, "why I am none of the above" -- Killing compassion -- The church and the mentally handicapped: A continuing challenge to the imagination.

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