{"product_id":"dispatches-from-the-front-9780822317166","title":"Dispatches from the Front","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ingratiating theology is always boring. This book is exciting just because it displays an uncompromising Christian who thinks about matters of great general concern. Stanley Hauerwas’s extraordinary intellectual energy constantly jolts one into reconsidering what one had previously taken for granted. He illustrates how a vigorous theology can participate in the common conversation.\"—Robert N. Bellah, author of \u003ci\u003eHabits of the Heart \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stanley Hauerwas is one of the few prophetic voices of our time—idiosyncratic, cantankerous, and challenging.\"—Cornel West\u003cbr\u003e\"Stanley Hauerwas’s criticisms of the American pieties are unanswerable. His alternatives are likely to be considered an outrage. Hooray for Hawerwas! There’s no one I’d rather be reading.\"—Frank Lentricchia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Positioning: In the Church and University But Not of Either 5\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Behind the Lines \u003cbr\u003e 1. Constancy and Forgiveness: The Novel as a School for Virtue 31\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Honor: By Way of a Comparison of Karl Barth and Trollope 58\u003cbr\u003e 3. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance 80\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Engagements \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Democratic Policing of Christianity 91\u003cbr\u003e 5. Creation as Apocalyptic: A Tribute to William Stringfellow with Jeff Powell 107\u003cbr\u003e 6. Can a Pacifist Think About War? 116\u003cbr\u003e 7. Whose \"Just\" War? Which Peace? 136\u003cbr\u003e 8. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) 153\u003cbr\u003e 9. Communitarians and Medical Ethicists: Or, \"Why I Am None of the Above\" 156\u003cbr\u003e 10. Killing Compassion 164\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Church and the Mentally Handicapped: A Continuing Challenge to the Imagination 177\u003cbr\u003e Notes 187\u003cbr\u003e Index 233","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406017274199,"sku":"9780822317166","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822317166.jpg?v=1730494255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dispatches-from-the-front-9780822317166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}