Bücher von Dr Stanley Hauerwas

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 theological claims--the words that must be 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 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.""""The essays and sermons in Working with Words reveal that the vibrancy of Stanley Hauerwas arises from his single-minded, manic determination to learn from Jesus and the Scriptures to see and speak as a Christian, and to teach other Christians to do the same.""--Peter J. LeithartNew St. Andrews Collegeauthor of Defending Constantine""Working with Words displays more clearly than ever before the basso ostinato that is Wittgenstein''s imprint on the Hauerwasian dialect . . . This is vintage Hauerwas.""--Jennifer A. HerdtProfessor of Christian Ethics, Yale University ""Whether preaching or teaching, writing or conversing, Stanley Hauerwas serves the Word with words--careful words, bold words, nuanced words, provocative words. . . . Reading Working with Words is its own reward, as are the insights one receives upon its completion.""--Michael L. Buddeauthor of The Borders of Baptism: Identities, Allegiances, and the Church (forthcoming in the Theopolitical Visions series of Cascade Books). ""Thanks be to God that we are blessed with a God who loves us enough to say something substantial to us. And thanks for Stanley Hauerwas who is able to say so well what God says.""--William H. WillimonBishop, The United Methodist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Area""Stanley Hauerwas is a word provocateur-but always in service to the Word that is our life and our hope.""--Debra Dean Murphyauthor of Teaching That Transforms: Worship as the Heart of Christian Education""They range wide and deep, offering both priestly affirmation and prophetic critique. Writing as always in his distinctively Christian voice, Hauerwas helps his audience to cease mumbling and fumbling about the Gospel and the Church. Indeed, he leaves us without excuse for speaking anything other than Christian.""--Ralph C. WoodUniversity Professor of Theology and LiteratureBaylor UniversityStanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Publisher''s Weekly named his memoir, Hannah''s Child: A Theologian''s Memoir, one of the Best Religion Titles of 2010.

""Stanley Hauerwas is a man of many gifts. These include wide and deep learning, passion about the issues of the day, a pastoral heart, a love of the Lord Jesus, and a puckish humor that permeates everything he does. Hauerwas has forged these gifts into a vocation as a daring, candid, imaginative ethicist in the service of the Gospel. All of these gifts are richly on exhibit in this book. In turn, the preacher in these sermons is critical, self-reflective, outrageous, passionate, and wise--all of the practices that constitute ''Stanley Hauerwas'' which this writer performs so well. Beyond the sermons, the prayers show a vigorous faith. The concluding interviews are mesmerizing in Hauerwas''s capacity to make connections. The cumulative effort of it all is breathtaking--just what Stanley intends--or he would not be Stanley."" --Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary""Stanley Hauerwas is always full of insight, but it is a rare treat to hear him speaking in a relaxed mode. Here he steps away from argument and takes time to be awed by beauty, to love good books and good friends, to delight in marriage and grieve at death--and he does all that consciously in the presence of God. This is a wonderfully fresh book."" --Ellen F. Davis,Professor of Bible and Practical Theology,Duke Divinity School ""By his own confession, Stanley Hauerwas loves being a theologian, loves to preach, and is learning to pray. This wise and winsome collection of Sunday sermons, wedding sermons, ordination sermons, eulogies, prayers, and interviews is a gift from these loves. Offered with the grace of confidence that Jesus is who the church proclaims him to be, these ""sundries"" take us to the edge of an extraordinary world--comic, just, and redeemed. And most of all, they take us to a place more real than real. Both singing above his work as a teacher and provocateur and revealing the beat of faith beneath it, they voice Stanley Hauerwas''s wonderful eloquence as a witness, a friend, an interlocutor, and a child of God."" --Wesley Avram,Clement-Muehl Assistant Professor of Communication,Yale Divinity School