Throughout an academic career of more than forty years, Stanley Hauerwas has been a lively commentator on Catholic ethics and ethicists. The results of this engagement are complex and controversial. From one angle, Hauerwas can come across as sharply critical, if not dismissive. For example, he has sharply questioned the coherence of “natural law” approaches to ethics, and (...)
August 17, 2012
Books
Our Bloody Altar
War and the American DifferenceTheological Reflections on Violence and National IdentityStanley HauerwasBaker Academic, $19.99, 208 pp.
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