Stanley Hauerwas

... The next time I teach my introductory course on Christian ethics, it will be re-quired reading."—JEFFREY STOUT, Princeton ... Guroian, Barry Penn Hollar, L. Gregory Jones, Emmanuel Katongole, Cathleen Kaveny, Philip Kenneson, Ted Koontz, Jo-seph Kotva, Stephen Lammers ...

Seeing is never simply a reaction to what passes before our eyes; it is a matter of how well the eye is trained and provisioned to discern the richness and the terror, beauty and banality of the worlds outside and within the self. Decisions are shaped by vision, and the ways that we ...

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today. A prolific lecturer and author, he has been at the forefront of key developments in contemporary theology, ranging from narrative theology to the “recovery of virtue.” Yet despite his prominence and the esteem reserved for his thought, his work has never before been collected in a single volume that provides a sense of the totality of his vision.
The editors of The Hauerwas Reader, therefore, have compiled and edited a volume that represents all the different periods and phases of Hauerwas’s work. Highlighting both his constructive goals and penchant for polemic, the collection reflects the enormous variety of subjects he has engaged, the different genres in which he has written, and the diverse audiences he has addressed. It offers Hauerwas on ethics, virtue, medicine, and suffering; on euthanasia, abortion, and sexuality; and on war in relation to Catholic and Protestant thought. His essays on the role of religion in liberal democracies, the place of the family in capitalist societies, the inseparability of Christianity and Judaism, and on many other topics are included as well.
Perhaps more than any other author writing on religious topics today, Hauerwas speaks across lines of religious traditions, appealing to Methodists, Jews, Anabaptists or Mennonites, Catholics, Episcopalians, and others.

Rapid globalization and portents of a post-secular age are driving unprecedented encounters within and between traditions. Encountering Traditions seeks to capture this wave of creativity by offering authors a venue to speak unapologetically from any one of the Abrahamic scriptural traditions and beyond. Books in this series explore topics that should interest a broad readership as well as specialists. They highlight the dynamism of encounters between traditions--religious as well as secular, mainstream as well as marginal. Drawing on a rich heritage of scholarly disciplines, they are attentive both to tradition and to social and historical context.

Encountering Traditions seeks to show the multiple ways that the energies of faith and reason, texts and history enhance our life worlds through creative scholarship. Topics that further this goal include inter-religious encounters between and within scriptural texts; modes and habits of thinking within and between traditions; how traditions encounter pressing concerns of poverty, health and the environment; interactions among disciplines of text scholarship, theology, history and critical thought; interactions among contemporary practices of scriptural exegesis, social and congregational life; and, legal or narrative theological reasoning.

SERIES EDITORS: STANLEY HAUERWAS, PETER OCHS, MARIA DAKAKE, RANDI RASHKOVER
SUP EDITOR: EMILY-JANE COHEN

Series Board:
Nicholas Adams, Rumee Ahmed, and Jonathan Tran

BOOKS:
(1) The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
MUHAMMAD IQBAL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAVED MAJEED (2013)
(2) His Hiding Place Is Darkness
A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence
FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J. (2013)
(3) Ethics as a Work of Charity
Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue
DAVID DECOSIMO (2014)
(4) Weird John Brown
Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
TED A. SMITH (2014)
(5) Hasidism Incarnate
Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism
SHAUL MAGID (2014)