{"product_id":"a-better-hope-resources-for-a-church-confronting-capitalism-democracy-and-postmodernity-9781587430008","title":"A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity","description":"By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With \u003ci\u003eA Better Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, he concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith, \"since Christians cannot afford to let ourselves be defined by what we are against. Whatever or whomever we are against, we are so only because God has given us so much to be for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauerwas here crystallizes and extends profound criticisms of America, liberalism, capitalism, and postmodernism, but also identifies unlikely allies (such as Chicago Archbishop Francis Cardinal George) and locates surprising resources for Christian survival (such as mystery novels). Interlocutors along the way include Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and, in a significant and previously unpublished essay, social gospeller Walter Rauschenbusch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever boring and often telling, \u003ci\u003eA Better Hope\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a thinker so often accused of being \"tribal\" and \"sectarian\" is at the same time one of few contemporary theologians read not just by other theologians, but by political scientists, philosophers, medical ethicists, law professors, and literary theorists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eSanctify Them in the Truth, A Community of Character, The Peaceable Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eand the bestselling \u003ci\u003eResident Aliens \u003c\/i\u003e(coauthored with William Willimon).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brazos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855573618962,"sku":"9781587430008","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_485cb472-3233-4ebe-94fc-009ff70fda7f.jpg?v=1737485245","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-better-hope-resources-for-a-church-confronting-capitalism-democracy-and-postmodernity-9781587430008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}