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In Good Company: The Church as Polis
Stanley Hauerwas
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Description for In Good Company: The Church as Polis
Paperback. By exposing the church as polis and "counter-story" to the world's politics, this text intends to help Christians see that God has given them the means to escape the destructive practices of the world by placing them "in good company" with one another, Catholic and Protestant alike. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCX1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268011796
SKU
V9780268011796
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About Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University. He is the author of many books, including A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic (University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), which was selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth ... Read more
Reviews for In Good Company: The Church as Polis
“Hauerwas enjoys being a provocative voice in the larger forum of contemporary ethical discourse. He cultivates an in-your-face style at times that can distort by oversimplifying the questions he claims to clarify. But part of his charm and technique is to encircle the reader and pull him or her further and further into his interpretation of the Kingdom of God.” ... Read more