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Stanley Hauerwas · 1981
A theological work arguing for the social significance of the church as a distinct community grounded in Christian convictions and narrative. Hauerwas contends that Christian ethics is inseparable from the church's identity and its faithful living according to Scripture.
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What this book knows
The church's primary social task is to be a story-formed community whose practices of virtue, family, and truthfulness constitute a politics of their own.
belonging
The primary social task of the church is to be itself—a people formed by a story that provides skills for negotiating the danger of this existence, trusting in God's promise of redemption.
CCTC-RC-013There is no way to speak of Jesus' story without its forming our own. The story it forms creates a community which corresponds to the form of his life.
CCTC-RC-058The exchange about forgotten war heroes dramatizes what a community loses when it no longer knows or values the story that formed it.
CCTC-RC-028education-and-formation
The truthfulness of a tradition is tested in its ability to form people who are ready to put the tradition into question, or recognize when it is being put into question by a rival tradition.
CCTC-RC-017Virtue is not the same as style; we associate virtue with a more profound formation of the self whose manner of action must contribute to or fulfill moral character.
CCTC-RC-126self-and-identity
Issues of family, sex, and abortion are not purely private; the more theoretical argument stands or falls with the perspective developed about these practical issues.
CCTC-RC-0096 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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