Reading Mill and Forster in Church: Liberal and Hauerwasian Ethics in Conversation
Throughout his theological career Stanley Hauerwas has struggled to maintain a demarcation between liberal and Christian ethics. Is such a separation theologically defensible? In an effort to deconstruct Hauerwas’s hostility to liberalism through Hauerwasian categories, the following article examine...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2015
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 478-490 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Church
B Mill B Hauerwas B public virtue B Forster B Liberalism |
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Summary: | Throughout his theological career Stanley Hauerwas has struggled to maintain a demarcation between liberal and Christian ethics. Is such a separation theologically defensible? In an effort to deconstruct Hauerwas’s hostility to liberalism through Hauerwasian categories, the following article examines areas of resemblance between liberal and Hauerwasian ethics. Through a comparative reading of the liberalisms of J. S. Mill (1806–1873) and E. M. Forster (1879–1970), the following argument retrieves a neglected form of liberal politics which in many respects conforms to the structure of Hauerwas’s radical description of Christian discipleship. Instead of understanding the Church as an isolated colony embattled against non-Christian culture, Mill and Forster challenge Hauerwas to consider the liberal polity as both the child and responsibility of the Church. |
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ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946815585081 |