This major work by one of the world's top theologians offers a provocative and closely argued perspective on natural theology. Stanley Hauerwas shows how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live. This critically acclaimed book, winner of aChristianity TodayBook Award, is now in paper. It includes a new afterword that sets the book in contemporary context and responds to critics.