Author
Stanley Hauerwas
Book Format
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Publisher
The Perseus Books Group
Published
August 1998
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Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably at home yet oddly fettered and irrelevant in America, Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to reimagine what it might mean to break back into Christianity in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked, a more urgent constructive task remains; namely, discerning what it may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions. Ironically, reclaiming the churchs identity and mission may require relinquishing its purported gainswhich often amount to little more than a sense of comfort, the seduction of feeling at ease in Zion to take up again the risk and adventure of life on the way. Accordingly, this book gives no comfort to the religious right or left, which continues to think Christianity can be made compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism.Such a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or in a reconstituted Christendom, but rather must develop within its own life the patient, attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better chance of noticing the changing directions of Gods leading. The wilderness, therefore, ought not to appear to contemporary Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit, but also the rigorous discipline, of faithful itinerancy. At such a crucial time as this, Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards characteristic of people called out, set apart, and led by God. Wilderness Wanderings is a clarion call for Christians to relinquish the impermanent citizenship of a home that can never be the churchs final resting place and confidently take up a course of life the horizons of which are as wide and expansive as the God who promises to lead.The book engages, often quite critically, with major theological and philosophical figures, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Martha Nussbaum, Jeff Stout, Tristram Engelhardt, Iris Murdoch, John Milbank, and Martin Luther King Jr. These interrogations illumine why theology must reclaim its own politics and ethics. Intent on avoiding abstraction, Hauerwas intervenes in current debates around medicine, the culture wars, and race.
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Author
Stanley Hauerwas
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group
Published
August 1998
Edition
New edition
Weight
386g
Page Count
256
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780813333489
ISBN-10
0813333482
Eden Code
1251257
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Author/Creator: Stanley Hauerwas
ISBN: 9780813333489
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Release Date: August 1998
Weight: 386g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 1251257
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