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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hauerwas"”.
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Toward a richer account of human rights in Christian moral theory : from Wolterstorff and Hauerwas to Wojtyla.
… thinkers Nicholas Wolterstorff and Stanley Hauerwas. While they take opposing views of the value of human rights in Christian moral theory, both see a connection between this understanding of the human agent and human rights. An alternate understanding of the human agent focuses on …
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The Role of Moral Exemplars in Stanley Hauer's Ethics
<p>This thesis is on the virtue ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, with particular focus on the role of moral exemplars in his theory. Hauerwas emphasizes the role of what are called "moral exemplars" in his virtue ethics. These are people or characters of narratives that best exemplify virtue. A theory …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
… is hard to overestimate the influence of Stanley Hauerwas on American religious ethics in the era since Martin Luther King. This dissertation also shows that Hauerwas presumes that Rawls is right, that democracy requires religious language be translated in to nonreligious language. Hauerwas is …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… the ethics H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick. This is done so as to illustrate the impact that their different understandings of the role of Christian faith in ethics have on the way that they understand Christian ethics functioning in the public moral …
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Updating the Role of Historiography in Christian Ethics
… This reading strategy is applied to Stanley Hauerwas' narratological approach to history. While he rejects the historical methods of modern historians, he still bases his view of the Christian church on the master narrative, Constantinianism. He then uses this master narrative to derive …
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Theological material : food and clothing, the church, and the freedom of God.
… retrieval represented by Stanley Hauerwas. I engage Hauerwas and related discourses (the ecclesial economics of William Cavanaugh and D. Stephen Long and the agrarian theologies of Norman Wirzba and Ellen Davis) to ask how the church might make room for the meaningfulness of …
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The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman
… follows from the work of David Aers, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Josef Pieper, and Eberhard Schockenhoff.</p>
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Solidarity with outsiders: The quest for common ground in theological ethics
… with the communitarian positions of Stanley Hauerwas and James McClendon on solidarity. Descriptions of relationships with world and outsiders prepare or deny the possibility of solidarity with them. Communities open themselves to challenge by outside voices or obstruct it with witness to …
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Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
… how some prominent theologians, such as Stanley Hauerwas (Christian virtue ethics) and James Gustafson (theocentric ethics), deal with similar questions. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify various positions represented in the debate, and to examine which consequences they have for …
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Discerning the body: a sacramental hermeneutic in literature and liturgy
… examines the work of Graham Ward, Stanley Hauerwas, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and Paul Ricoeur, looking at the way that even their attempts to take the body into account tend to downplay the concreteness of particular people and their stories. The second part of the thesis explores the way …