A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic

by Stanley Hauerwas

Book Overview

Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century.

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 there is a special relation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268007357
• ISBN13: 9780268007355
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Incredibly provocative

This was the first book of Prof. Hauerwas's that I read, and it remains my favorite. It's been over a year since I read it, so many of the details of it are fuzzy in my mind. Nonetheless, I do remember being particularly struck by his statements about marriage, abortion, and the role of the church. Not to mention a lengthy first chapter almost entirely devoted to looking at how "scripture" functions in Richard Adams' _Watership Down_. If you've not read Hauerwas yet, repent, and buy this one. If you've read his other books, still buy this one.