If the lesson-drawing bits of this book had been omitted, I would have been as enthusiastic as are the blurbs printed on its cover”as it happens, written by two highly respected friends of mine. The book would then have been straightforwardly an exposition of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche, the . . . . Continue Reading »
I It is the whole mission of the church to speak the gospel. As to what sort of thing “the gospel” may be, too many years ago I tried to explain that in a book with the title Story and Promise , and I still regard these two concepts as the best analytical characterization of the . . . . Continue Reading »
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After Christendom? might be the systematic assembly of his thought for which friends and opponents have pressed him. In considerable part, the promise is fulfilled. The chapters of this book . . . . Continue Reading »
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