Tag: <span>04 Book Review</span>

Ontology, Missiology, and the Travail of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics (Vanhoozer, 2013)

A Conversation with Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics

A Place For God? (Hauerwas, 2006)

“Witham has managed the impossible: to tell a coherent story about the diverse and often eccentric Gifford Lectures from their beginning in 1888 to the present. Telling this story involves not only reading the lectures, but also knowing the social, political and intellectual background of the various lecturers”

When The Politics of Jesus Makes A Difference (Hauerwas, 1993)

“Yoder may well help us to use the remaining resources of that tradition to help Christians rediscover ways to serve our non-Christian brothers and sisters by being unwavering in our commitment to the politics of Jesus”.

A Theologian For These Times? Review of Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe (Marsh, 2002)

“So fierce is Hauerwas’s protest against Niebuhr that any concession on pacifism is taken as an offense against the nonviolent God of Jesus Christ”.

The Naked Public Square Now [Symposium] (Hauerwas, 2004)

“Neuhaus claims, for example, that theology is “the disciplined reflection upon transcendent truth and value that gives significance, perhaps eternal significance, to our lives.” But such an account of theology assumes that you know what “transcendence” means prior to knowing what it means for God to have called Israel from the nations. It is interesting, indeed, how little there is about the Church in The Naked Public Square. If you have transcendence I guess you really do not need the Church”.

Karl Barth, Dogmatics In Outline (1947) (Hauerwas, 2000)

“Barth understood that recovering Christian speech is work and it is a work that the world literally cannot live without. The heart of Barth’s theology is the presumption that if we get God wrong, we get everything wrong: our politics, our science, our art, our very lives”.