Stanley Hauerwas

The State of the University

Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, controversial and world-renowned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas, tackles the issue of theology being sidelined as a necessary discipline in the modern university. It is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that - knowledge.

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The book is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that - knowledge.

It is no secret that theology is no longer considered a necessary subject in the modern university. Why is it assumed that the kind of knowledge theology represents is in some fashion deficient when compared to other subjects? Hauerwas argues that theology is often excluded from the knowledges of the modern university because those knowledges are constituted by an understanding of time necessary to make economic and state realities seem inevitable. Yet it is precisely this difference that makes Christian theology, while being governed by a different understanding of time than that characteristic of the other disciplines of the university, an essential resource for the university to achieve its task - that is, to form people who are able to imagine a different world through critical and disciplined reflection.

Hauerwas subsequently challenges the domesticated character of much recent theology by suggesting how prayer and the love of the poor are essential practices that should shape the theological task. Hauerwas makes this case by conversing with figures as diverse as Luigi Giussani, David Burrell, Stanley Fish, Wendell Berry, Jeff Stout, Rowan Williams and Sheldon Wolin.

Produktdetails

• Illuminations: Theory & Religion
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781405162487
• ISBN-10: 1405162481
• Artikelnr.: 22730507

Autorenporträt

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Chris K. Huebner is assistant professor of theology and ethics at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Harry J. Huebner is professor of philosophy and theology, Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba Mark Thiessen Nation is associate professor of Theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. 1. Theological Knowledge and the Knowledges of the
University: Beginning Explorations. 2. Leaving Ruins: The Gospel and
Cultural Formations. 3. How Risky is The Risk of Education: Random
Reflections from the American Context. 4. The End of "Religious Pluralism:"
A Tribute to David Burrell, C.S.C. 5. The Pathos of the University: The
Case of Stanley Fish. 6. What Would a Christian University Look Like?: Some
Tentative Answers Inspired by Wendell Berry. 7. Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana:
Schooling the Heart in the Heart of Texas. 8. Christians and the So-Called
State (We Are In): A Meditation on Loyalty after September 11, 2001. 9.
Democratic Time: Lessons Learned from Yoder and Wolin. 10. The State of the
Secular: Theology, Prayer, and the University. 11. To Love God, the Poor,
and Learning: Lessons Learned from Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. 12.
Seminaries Are in Trouble: Chastened Reflections on the Centennial of
Bethany Theological Seminary. 13. Ordinary Time: A Tribute to Rowan
Williams. Index