God, Truth, and Witness

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Touching on topics such as church and civil religion and Jewish-Christian relations, this celebration of Stanley Hauerwas's thought is certain to evoke thoughtful engagement and spiritual reflection. The book also engages Hauerwas's contributions to key theological twentieth-century developments, including narrative theology, virtue and medical ethics, Christian pacifism, and ecclesiology in a post-Christendom era.

FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
This insightful Festschrift recognizes the achievements of Stanley Hauerwas, one of the most prolific and influential theological writers in the United States, whom Time magazine recognized in 2001 as "America's best theologian." Jones (The Edge of Heaven) and his coeditors have brought together an international group of highly respected scholars, including David Burrell, Arne Rasmusson, Robert Bellah, Robert Jenson, George Lindbeck, and Peter Ochs, to address topics pertinent to Hauerwas's work. Their essays are divided into four sections-"Truthful Witness and the Freedom of Friendship," "Becoming a Christian and Facing (Post-) Christendom," "A City on a Hill and the Church(es)," and "Practicing Theology and Learning from the Other"-that reflect many of Hauerwas's theological concerns. Throughout, the contributors provide trenchant insight into subjects of real interest to Hauerwas, and though generally positive, they freely discuss areas where he appears inconsistent or might have developed his thoughts further. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.-John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist Univ. Lib.,TX Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Sighing for the love of truth : Augustine's quest 13
2 Can we be free without a creator? 35
3 The virtue of writing appropriately 53
4 A constantinian Bishop : St. Ambrose of Milan 73
5 The politics of diaspora 88
6 God and king 112
7 Hauerwasian hooks and the Christian social imagination 131
8 Christian civilization 153
9 Representing the absent in the city 167
10 The belligerent kingdom 193
11 Ecumenisms in conflict 212
12 What's going on in the church in South Africa? 229
13 "An immense darkness" and the tasks of theology 257
14 Learning made strange 280
15 Abrahamic Hauerwas 309