Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Abbreviations for Books by Stanley Hauerwas xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Part I: Editorial Introductions
6. An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader 3
7. Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a Completely Unobjective Person 17
8. Part II: Reframing Theological Ethics
9. Who Are Christians? The Christian Story
10. 1. How ‘‘Christian Ethics’’ Came to Be (1997) 37
11. 2. On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983) 51
12. 3. A Retrospective Assessment of an ‘‘Ethics of Character’’: The Development of Hauerwas’s Theological Project (1985, 2001) 75
13. 4. Why the ‘‘Sectarian Temptation’’ Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988) 90
14. 5. Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981) 111
15. 6. Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983) 116
16. 7. The Church as God’s New Language (1986) 142
17. What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship
18. 8. Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001) 165
19. 9. A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981) 171
20. 10. Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer’s Inside the Third Reich (1974) with David B. Burrell 200
21. 11. Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980) 221
22. 12. The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship Is Required (1993) 255
23. 13. Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995) 267
24. How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified
25. 14. Courage Exemplified (1993) 287
26. 15. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992) 307
27. 16. Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985) 318
28. 17. Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981) 327
29. 18. Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick (1997) 348
30. Part III: New Intersections in Theological Ethics
31. The Church’s Witness: Christian Ethics after ‘‘Public Theology’’
32. 19. The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983) 371
33. 20. Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984) 392
34. 21. On Being a Church Capable of Addressing a World at War: A Pacifist Response to the United Methodist Bishops’ Pastoral In Defense of Creation (1988) 426
35. 22. A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986) 459
36. 23. Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It (1978) 481
37. 24. The Radical Hope in the Annunciation: Why Both Single and Married Christians Welcome Children (2001) 505
38. 25. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993) 519
39. 26. Christianity: It’s Not a Religion: It’s an Adventure (1991) 522
40. The Church’s Hospitality: Christian Ethics after ‘‘Medical Ethics’’
41. 27. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985) 539
42. 28. Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984) 556
43. 29. Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia (1976) 577
44. 30. Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person, But He Is Still My Uncle Charlie (1975) 596
45. 31. Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991) 603
46. Afterword: Stanley Hauerwas’s Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader’s Guide 623
47. Selected Annotated Bibliography: 1971–2001 673
48. Scripture References 699
49. Name Index 701
50. Subject Index 709