RT Article
T1 How I think Hauerwas thinks about theology
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 69
IS 1
SP 20
OP 38
A1 Larsen, Sean
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580707580
AB This paper highlights two aspects of Stanley Hauerwas's thought: philosophical ethics, which consists of second-order methodological claims; and moral theology, which consists of first-order, local, unsystematic moral descriptions. I show how the philosophical ethics relates to the moral theology by proposing a set of rules that constitute a ‘grammar' of Hauerwas's thought. These rules are asymmetrical in that later rules presuppose earlier rules but earlier rules do not presuppose later rules. Each rule corresponds to texts that Hauerwas recommends and relies upon. The first rule prioritizes MacIntyre's concept of non-foundational ‘practical wisdom'. The second rule, which draws on Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Anscombe and Kovesi to stress the impossibility of separating agent from act, influences the third rule that ethics is moral description. The fourth rule uses ‘postliberal' theologians and draws on the liturgy alongside Barth and Yoder, in order to redescribe the shape of Christian life in liberal modernity.
K1 Stanley Hauerwas
K1 Wittgenstein
K1 Ethics
K1 Liberal Protestantism
K1 Theology
K1 Virtue
DO 10.1017/S0036930615000757