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Author_John B. Thomson
Barth's Christological
Barth’s Christological
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Christian Freedom
Christian political ethics
church identity renewal
Church's Narrative
Church’s Narrative
Constantinian Settlement
Contemporary Society
Docetic Tendencies
Ecclesial Community
Ecclesial Politics
Enlightenment Agenda
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Eschatological Horizon
God's Good Creation
God’s Good Creation
Hauerwas's Approach
Hauerwas's Critique
Hauerwas's Ecclesiology
Hauerwas's Project
Hauerwas's Theology
Hauerwas's Work
Hauerwas’s Approach
Hauerwas’s Critique
Hauerwas’s Ecclesiology
Hauerwas’s Project
Hauerwas’s Theology
Hauerwas’s Work
Historico Critical Method
Liberal Anthropocentricity
Liberating Ecclesiology
Moltmann's Political Theology
Moltmann’s Political Theology
moral discourse church
narrative ecclesiology
Niebuhrian Realism
political theology liberation perspective
post-Enlightenment Liberalism
postliberal theology
theological liberalism critique
Truthful Living
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780754633945
- Weight: 511g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
The Revd Canon Dr John B. Thomson, Director of Ministry, Diocese of Sheffield, UK
