John B. Thomson

The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas (eBook, ePUB)

A Christian Theology of Liberation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of liberation, Thomson shows that it possesses a greater degree of coherence than its usual expression in ad hoc essays or sermons. John Thomson locates Hauerwas in relation to a wide range of figures, including the obvious choices - Rauschenbusch, Niebuhr, Barth, Yoder, Lindbeck, MacIntyre, Milbank and O'Donovan - as well as less expected figures such as Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Pannenberg, Moltmann, and Hardy. Providing a structured and rigorous outline of Hauerwas' intellectual roots, this book presents an account of his theological project that demonstrates an underlying consistency in his attempt to create a political understanding of Christian freedom, reaching beyond the limitations of the liberal post-enlightenment tradition. Hauerwas is passionate about the importance of moral discourse within the Christian community and its implications for the Church's politics. When the Church is often perceived to be in decline and an irrelevance, Hauerwas proffers a way of recovering identity, confidence and mission, particularly for ordinary Christians and ordinary churches. Thomson evaluates the comparative strengths and weaknesses of Hauerwas' argument and indicates a number of vulnerabilities in his project.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351891196
• Artikelnr.: 48418791

Autorenporträt

The Revd Canon Dr John B. Thomson, Director of Ministry, Diocese of Sheffield, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Delineating an architecture of Stanley Hauerwas's project: Recovering Christian liberty
Recovering ecclesial liberty
Hauerwas, liberalism and the Enlightenment project: Hauerwas and the Enlightenment project
Emancipation as the Enlightenment agenda
Liberation as the ecclesiology project rather than the Enlightenment project
Theological liberalism and the loss of Christian freedom: Theological liberalism
Liberation from liberalism?
Karl Barth and Yale
Theocentric liberalism or theology in a third way
Christian freedom as embodied narrative: Hauerwas and narrative
An emancipatory narrative? An ecclesiology of liberation: the politics of Christian freedom?: Theology, politics and liberation
Hauerwas's project: an ecclesial politics of liberation
Hauerwas's project: an adequate ecclesiology of liberation?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.