Working with words : on learning to speak Christian / Stanley Hauerwas.
2011
BT60 .H385 2011
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Title
Working with words : on learning to speak Christian / Stanley Hauerwas.
Author
ISBN
9781608999682
1608999688
1608999688
Imprint
Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xv, 322 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
BT60 .H385 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)707079935
(OCoLC)707079935
(OCoLC)707079935
Summary
The crucial challenge for theology is that when it is read the reader thinks, "This is true." Recognizing claims that are "true" enables readers to identify an honest expression of life's complexities. The trick is to show that the theological claims, the words used to speak of God are necessary if the theologian is to speak honestly of the complexities of life. The worst betrayal of the task of theology comes when the theologian fears that the words he or she must use are not necessary. This new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons by Stanley Hauerwas is focused on the central challenge, risk, and difficulty of this necessity : working with words about God. The task of theology is to help us to do things with words. "God" is not a word peculiar to theology, but if "God" is a word to be properly used by Christians, the word must be disciplined by Christian practice. It should, therefore, not be surprising that, like any word, we must learn how to say "God."
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Learning Christian : to see and to speak. Look at it and live : a sermon
Seeing darkness, hearing silence : Augustine's account of evil
Disciplined seeing : forms of Christianity and forms of life / with Brian Goldstone
God and goodness : a theological exploration
Naming God : a sermon
Speaking Christian : a commencement address
Why "the way words run" matters : reflections on becoming a "major biblical scholar"
II. The Language of love : from death to life. Why did Jesus have to die? : an attempt to cross the barrier of age
More, or, A taxonomy of greed
Love : a sermon
Love's work : discerning the body : a sermon
Body matters : a sermon
Finite care in a world of infinite need : a sermon
Sent : the church is mission
III. Habits of speech exemplified : some teachers. "Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet" : reflections on A secular age / with Rom and Coles
H. Richard Niebuhr
The virtues of Alisdair MacIntyre
The virtues of the Summa Theologiae / with Sheryl Overmyer
"A recall to Christian life" : what is social about the Catholic social teachings / with Jana Bennett
Methodist theological ethics / with D. Stephen Long
Friendship and freedom : reflections on Bonhoeffer's "The friend"
Appendix : Learning to see red wheelbarrows : on vision and relativism.
Seeing darkness, hearing silence : Augustine's account of evil
Disciplined seeing : forms of Christianity and forms of life / with Brian Goldstone
God and goodness : a theological exploration
Naming God : a sermon
Speaking Christian : a commencement address
Why "the way words run" matters : reflections on becoming a "major biblical scholar"
II. The Language of love : from death to life. Why did Jesus have to die? : an attempt to cross the barrier of age
More, or, A taxonomy of greed
Love : a sermon
Love's work : discerning the body : a sermon
Body matters : a sermon
Finite care in a world of infinite need : a sermon
Sent : the church is mission
III. Habits of speech exemplified : some teachers. "Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet" : reflections on A secular age / with Rom and Coles
H. Richard Niebuhr
The virtues of Alisdair MacIntyre
The virtues of the Summa Theologiae / with Sheryl Overmyer
"A recall to Christian life" : what is social about the Catholic social teachings / with Jana Bennett
Methodist theological ethics / with D. Stephen Long
Friendship and freedom : reflections on Bonhoeffer's "The friend"
Appendix : Learning to see red wheelbarrows : on vision and relativism.
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