Stanley Hauerwas is the most immediately likable bombthrower I have ever met. I first encountered him and his essays during that part of the 1970s I spent in the newly hatched field of bioethics. His later books The Peaceable Kingdom (1983) and Against the Nations (1985) had a considerable impact on my thinking, even when, or perhaps especially when, I could not agree with them (...)
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A Bricklayer’s Son
Stanley Hauerwas & the Christian Difference
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