Journal ArticleStudies in Christian Ethics · May 1, 2020
In this article I try to introduce the overall structure of Bretherton’s book Christ and the Common Life by showing how each chapter displays how talk of God and talk of politics are mutually constitutive. In particular I try to show how Bretherton’s ‘case ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr were each larger than life individuals. Their writing alone is amazing in quantity and quality, but they were also engaged in political and societal life. One suspects that their presence would take up all the air in the roo ...
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Book · January 1, 2018
Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably?at home? yet oddly ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
The chapter argues that the common law is a useful place for ethicists who emphasize distinctive Christian claims to engage contemporary secular morality. The method of the common law is inductive, epistemologically humble, and case centered. Drawing on ke ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
Stanley Hauerwas is arguably the most well-known figure in theological ethics of the last generation. Having published voluminously over the last 30 years, late in his career he has also published two volumes of essays discussing his corpus retrospectively ...
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Journal ArticleChristian Bioethics · April 1, 2016
To set medicine within the context of a good or faithful life requires virtues that give physicians and patients the skills to understand and practice the kind of care medicine is capable of giving. We begin with a prayer that names some of these virtues. ...
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Book · January 1, 2016
In Sanctify them in the Truth Stanley Hauerwas provides an overview of the development of theology and ethics. He considers how the two disciplines interrelate, discusses the nature of sin, how any account of sin requires a more determinative account of mo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Law and Religion · October 1, 2015
In this essay I offer a nuanced account of my critique of rights language. I argue that my primary concern is not to discount the usefulness of rights language in contemporary expressions of legal and moral duties. Rather my concern is with the overrelianc ...
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Book · January 1, 2015
This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticismto validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly · September 1, 2014
Stanley Hauerwas draws upon the Aristotelian philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor to reflect upon his own approach to theology. Like MacIntyre and Taylor, Haurwas rejects the modern theoretical "position from nowhere" that demands "a ground ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics · January 1, 2013
In this essay I draw on the work of novelist J. M. Coetzee and philosophers Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and Stephen Mulhall to reflect on what it might mean to do Christian ethics without denying the "difficulty of reality." I then turn to John Howard Yo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religious Ethics · June 1, 2012
In this essay Stanley Hauerwas reflects on his life's work by responding to the critical contributions found in the essays of this volume. Rather than trying to defend a "position," Hauerwas takes this opportunity to offer further insight into how he sees ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
In this paper Hauerwas reflects on the significance of the L’Arche communities as exemplars of the true nature of Christian community. He explores the philosophy and theology of Jean Vanier as a mode of embodied theology. Hauerwas reflects critically on Mi ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Hauerwas explores the nature of care. Exploring the notion of parenthood and the purpose of having children, he provides a theological framework which reframes our understanding of all children, including those whom we have chosen to label “mentally retard ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
In this essay Hauerwas explores the question of suffering. Does developmental disability necessarily have to be equated with suffering? He explores the nature of suffering in its physical, psychological, and social dimensions and relates this understanding ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Hauerwas presents a moral vision of the church and reframes the way in which we might understand Christian education. He presents a model of the church as a social ethic. The church does not simply do ethics, it is an ethic insofar as it embodies the gestu ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Hauerwas explores the nature of suffering as the term is applied to the lives of people with developmental disabilities. He asks the question “whose suffering is it that is relieved by such medical technologies as amniocentesis?" Is it the suffering of the ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Hauerwas urges us to move away from the concept of the ‘person.' He suggests that the concept of ‘person’ is inadequate but probably also misleading and even dangerous. As a regulative notion to define the relation between doctor and patient the concept of ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
This paper develops the theme of care which was begun in chapter 9. Here Hauerwas focuses on the importance of the family in the process of caring for people with developmental disabilities. He explores the motivation behind parenting and offers some pierc ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
The criteria for what is understood as authentic ‘humanhood’ have been much discussed in contemporary bioethics. Many of the ‘traditional’ arguments for the essence of humanness necessarily exclude people with developmental disabilities. Such definitions c ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
In this essay Hauerwas explores the experience of children with developmental disabilities and their parents. Arguing against the problemitization of disability Hauerwas asks the piercing question: What are children for? He presents a case for suggesting t ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
Hauerwas explores dimensions of the question: ‘what is normal.' Exploring the ideas of normality and difference he offers a critique of the ‘principle of normality.' What is normality? Normality as it is often formulated can be dangerous for people with de ...
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Book · April 20, 2011
Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. Features new ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2010
It is not easy to criticize a writer who has done so much good as C.S. Lewis. Yet I must here write critically because I am to address his views concerning violence and war. I am a pacifist. Lewis was not. Indeed, not only was he not a pacifist, he argued ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
This paper develops the theme of care which was begun in chapter 9. Here Hauerwas focuses on the importance of the family in the process of caring for people with developmental disabilities. He explores the motivation behind parenting and offers some pierc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
Hauerwas explores the nature of suffering as the term is applied to the lives of people with developmental disabilities. He asks the question “whose suffering is it that is relieved by such medical technologies as amniocentesis?” Is it the suffering of the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
Hauerwas explores dimensions of the question: ‘what is normal.’ Exploring the ideas of normality and difference he offers a critique of the ‘principle of normality.’ What is normality? Normality as it is often formulated can be dangerous for people with de ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
Hauerwas explores the nature of care. Exploring the notion of parenthood and the purpose of having children, he provides a theological framework which reframes our understanding of all children, including those whom we have chosen to label “mentally retard ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
Hauerwas urges us to move away from the concept of the ‘person.’ He suggests that the concept of ‘person’ is inadequate but probably also misleading and even dangerous. As a regulative notion to define the relation between doctor and patient the concept of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
The criteria for what is understood as authentic ‘humanhood’ have been much discussed in contemporary bioethics. Many of the ‘traditional’ arguments for the essence of humanness necessarily exclude people with developmental disabilities. Such definitions c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
Hauerwas presents a moral vision of the church and reframes the way in which we might understand Christian education. He presents a model of the church as a social ethic. The church does not simply do ethics, it is an ethic insofar as it embodies the gestu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
In this essay Hauerwas explores the question of suffering. Does developmental disability necessarily have to be equated with suffering? He explores the nature of suffering in its physical, psychological, and social dimensions and relates this understanding ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
In this paper Hauerwas reflects on the significance of the L’Arche communities as exemplars of the true nature of Christian community. He explores the philosophy and theology of Jean Vanier as a mode of embodied theology. Hauerwas reflects critically on Mi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion, Disability and Health · January 1, 2005
In this essay Hauerwas explores the experience of children with developmental disabilities and their parents. Arguing against the problemitization of disability Hauerwas asks the piercing question: What are children for? He presents a case for suggesting t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics · January 1, 2005
IN THIS ESSAY WE ASK WHETHER CHRISTIANS HAVE THE RESOURCES AND the commitment to make the theological-ethical case for ending war as an instrument of international and national policy in an authentically Christian, intellectually coherent, and practically ...
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Journal ArticleChristian bioethics · March 1995
Over the last century Christian ethics has moved from an attempt to Christianize the social order to a quandary over whether being Christian unduly biases how medical ethics is done. This movement can be viewed as the internal development of protestant lib ...
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Journal ArticleChristian scholar's review · March 1994
Recent medical ethics has been shaped by liberal presuppositions, but in challenging those assumptions, Christians must be careful not to adopt communitarian assumptions instead, which tend to promote community as a good in itself. Rather, argues Stanley H ...
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Journal ArticleHealth progress (Saint Louis, Mo.) · December 1985
Health care in this nation is becoming multitiered--with the poor in jeopardy of being excluded from even minimal care--because of the mistaken belief that money can buy unlimited health care for everyone. But our medical resources are finite, and choices ...
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Journal ArticleTheology Today · January 1, 1985
“Put simply, religious education is the training in those gestures through which we learn the story of God and God's will for our lives”. It is ongoing training in the skills we need in order to live faithful to the kingdom that has been initiated in Jesus ...
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Journal ArticleHospital progress · January 1980
Christians have so far failed to show why abortion is an affront to Christian convictions. Rather than arguing when life begins, Christians must show that Christianity as a way of life which recognizes God as Lord of life makes abortion unthinkable. ...
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Journal ArticlePastoral Psychology · March 1, 1976
A psychiatrist, an ethicist, and a pastoral counselor comment on the ways in which they conceive of homosexuality in their work, reflection, and efforts at counseling. Although each writes in isolation from the others, a surprising degree of consensus emer ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of the medical sciences · March 1975
Decisions regarding the care of deformed and retarded infants pose difficult ethical and moral dilemmas for both physicians and parents. Ethical inquiry regarding such questions must be concerned with how we see and understand the dilemma for conceptualiz ...
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